Testimony for April's 10th birthday [3] in 2006.
All of April's actions are aimed towards actively promoting and defending Free solutions. During the debates on the DADVSI bill, on software patents or on so many other topics, April has helped to inform, to raise public awareness and to convince that beyond purely technical questions, Free Software encompasses economic, social and cultural stakes, choices and major directions that we need to define all together. Its professionalism and its expertise have become most valuable assets and have made it both the inevitable player and the privileged interlocutor it is today. For the next years, all I wish for April is that it may continue to work alongside all those who wish to build an open model in which the free circulation of ideas and knowledge becomes the source of our society's social, cultural and economic wealth.