I'm not one to sympathize with Stallman's crusade, but I feel for him about this.<p>As a Brazilian, it shames me that at first they asked him to speak English and halfway through the presentation people asked the coordinator to have him switch to Spanish because they thought they could understand English but in fact they couldn't. And, as we Brazilians don't speak Spanish, I know from experience they'd have a hard time understanding Spanish as well.<p>There was a total communication failure. The coordinator should have provided translation services as usual in this kind of event.<p>The audience behaved like animals, the coordinator didn't present any solution and despite the fact the Stallman explicitly asked people not to record and publish videos of his reaction, the fellow that was recording it was unmoved.<p>A complete shame in all aspects.