RMS at U of Canterbury tomorrow at 5
Dave Lane
As part of his GNU/Zealand tour, 2009, Richard M Stallman (better known
as RMS) is talking about "A free digital society" tomorrow, Tuesday 13
October, starting at 5pm (going until 7ish).
For anyone who doesn't know about RMS, he is the bona fide godfather of
free software:
- he created GNU and the Free Software Foundation,
- he's the author of the GNU General Public License (the most widely
used free/open source software license by far),
- he came up with the concept of "Copyleft"
- he's the originator of Emacs, the GCC compiler, and many other
cornerstone free software applications.
He walks the talk so that the rest of us have the freedom to use and
improve great software and maintain control our digital destinies. He's
well worth a listen!
The venue is the A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] at the
University of Canterbury.
The talk is open to the public.
For further details of RMS's itinerary, see
http://info541.sim.vuw.ac.nz/blogs/rms-2009-new-zealand-visit-schedule/
Please feel free to pass this on.
Cheers,
Dave
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