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Shit. I hope he's okay, it's difficult to tell what happened through the lens of Google Translate. Anyone have more information?

My Spanish is rusty, but the article says that:

- Stallman felt ill halfway through a lecture he was offering in Barcelona, probably due to a blood pressure spike;

- he asked the staff for medical assistance;

- meanwhile, he continued the lecture with some difficulty, but in a good mood;

- the lecture was suspended when the ambulance arrived, and was eventually cancelled;

- after being attended by the medical staff, he was well enough to walk out of the building;

- no further details on his health.

Of course, the big question is whether the firmware in the EKG machine was open or not.

I seriously wonder if medical care done by proprietary devices with proprietary software is something that he would object to!

Your Spanish is not so rusty after all :-)

Glad he's okay.

Let's hope the hospital doesn't offer him breakfast.

matt from the fsf here -- i spoke to the person with him at the hospital, he's fine. they're doing some routine tests now.

At least he probably doesn't need to worry about the hospital buying him a parrot.

If the server feels unhappy with the extra https traffic, the http://www.fsf.org/news/richard-stallman-speech-in-barcelona... link works OK.

My Spanish is equally rusty, but this (English language) article seems to have conveyed the main points:

What's ambiguous about him falling ill due to a "power surge"?