Document Freedom Day conference, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium

28th of March we celebrated the DFD in the EP, where a conference took place on this occasion.

Karsten Gerloff, president of FSFE gave a speech on the subject from a historical perspective, through the evolution of books, printing until the period of eBooks. This explained to the participants how things evolved and how we all became sort of printing press with technical change.

Whatever change the digital age brought, books still matter and the access to knowledge, memories, still remains in the interest of everyone.

Here at this point to give more emphasis on the argument that we, readers need Open Standards to own our books and not to give the control over them to companies he took the DFD handcuffs. (see picture)

It was a successful & surprising wake up moment for the audience…