Sharing Nicely

Derek is great at framing messages that sum up the problem (and often hint at the solution). His “imagine if …” statement became the slogan for the new Freedom To Innovate South Africa poster. FTISA has been a crucial organization in support of access to knowledge in South Africa. They played an important role advising the South African Bureau of Standards against giving in to corporate power in the OOXML ISO vote and they have been doing a tremendous job raising awareness of the registration of software patents (something the law does not support) in South Africa.