[Fwd: [Fsuk-manchester] Richard Stallman talk - Manchester (1st May)]
Tim Dobson <[email protected]>
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I'm going. I know this is probably a long way up north for many of you nevertheless it would be good to see some of you there. :) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Richard Stallman talk - Manchester (1st May) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:04:56 +0100 From: Paul Waring <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] [Please feel free to distribute this to other techy lists you may be on] Free of charge evening talk organised in association with the Manchester branches of the BCS and IET. 'Free Software in Ethics and Practice' - speaker: Richard Stallman Thursday 1st May, 2008 - Talk starts at 6:45pm (ends approx. 8:30pm) with refreshments from 6:15pm. Venue: Room D1, Renold Building, University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB There is no need to book a place - just turn up on the night. Abstract: Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms. About the speaker: Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. -- Paul Waring http://www.pwaring.com -- Manchester Free Software Group - http://manchester.fsuk.org -- www.tdobson.net ---- If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw