Re: [DLC] Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd

Hello All,

FYI, I saw this talk in San Francisco and unlike his free software
talk, this talk was pretty terrible and not well thought out.  You
should only go if you want a chance to see how crazy this man is.

Later,
EJ


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Samir Faci <[email protected]> wrote:
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> From: Aisha Halim <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM
> Subject: Richard Stallman, presenting at UofC, Monday April 2nd
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> FYI,
>
> -Aisha
>
>
> Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project and the Free Software
> Foundation, will be giving a talk at The University of Chicago on
> Monday, April 2nd at 1pm in the Assembly Hall of the International
> House.
>
> This talk will be open to the public.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Speaker: Richard Stallman
>
> From: Free Software Foundation
>
> Web page: http://stallman.org/
>
> Title: Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks
>
> Abstract: Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and
> was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by
> the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with
> computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it.
>
> The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for
> draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while
> suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to
> serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright=97to promote progress,
> for the benefit of the public=97then we must make changes in the other
> direction.
>
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