Tunis, Dar Bach Hamba Palace
17th November 2005 (9 p.m.)
The MINIMUM PRIZE 2005 to
Richard StallmanCittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto gives the prize, in Tunis, to Richard Stallman for the GNU/Linux project. The prize will be delivered by Minister Gilberto Gil.
The minimum prize is dedicated to those who initiate a process of responsible transformation in society.
Minimum like the relationship between individuals that, through the interaction of different singularities, produces great turning points in human civilisation.
Minimum like the embryo, the generating principle of a new society, the key to an evolutionary stage in which creativity and human science find ways to coexist with the intelligence of nature.
Now in its fifth year (in 2004 the prize was awarded to the book Talking with the enemy by Jamil Hilal and Ilan Pappe), the 2005 minimum prize goes to Richard Stallman, inventor of the GNU Operating System, for having created the world free software movement and, through this, for having initiated the development of new source codes of freedom in human society.