About a year ago, we had spoken with Richard Stallman about the free software movement in Latin America and he said something which was surprising: even though free software was extremely popular in Cuba, it was receiving heavy resistance from Cuban academics and the university system in Cuba. Well, an announcement this week indicates that this has finally changed: “After years of deliberation, the University of Havana has finally decided to switch over to free software on its network of computers, virtually all of which are running the Windows operating system, produced by United States software giant Microsoft.” And, Yudivián Almeida, professor of computer at the University of Havana, this change means that “[w]hen free software has been installed on all of the university’s computers, it will make no sense to teach using anything else.” So, one more Latin American institution has made the conversion away from closed, proprietary software and towards open knowledge.