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

Hope they bring the Pepsi:
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-O=
ctober/007647.html

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Matthew Kemp <[email protected]> wr=
ote:
> Amen!
>
> --
> Matthew P Kemp
>
> On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:15 AM, Sam Faci <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> RMS is a completely off his rockers. =A0He had a great vision in his
>> day, but his view
>> of reality is very flawed, and his freedom in unrealistic in this day in=
 age.
>>
>> He also lacks common social tact, can come off very rude, and a few
>> other adjectives
>> I'll refrain from using.
>>
>> I respect his ideas and what he started, but of late I think he does
>> more damage to
>> the FLOSS movement then good.
>>
>> FSF has also been working on their own kernel and hasn't managed to to r=
elease
>> a stable version to date: =A0http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
>>
>> Linus is attributed with creating linux, even RMS doesn't question
>> that, he simply wants
>> credit for his contribution to helping the movement my citing his gnu
>> toolkits involvement.
>>
>> That being said, he's a great showman.. and you might be interested on
>> going and getting
>> baptized in the church of the fsf or whatnot.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:34 PM, =A0<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> He is the father of the Open Source movement and originator of Linux.
>>> He was and is a genius and ahead of his time.
>>>
>>> He should be respected.
>>>
>>> His talk should not be missed.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: eviljoel <[email protected]>
>>>> Sent: Mar 12, 2012 1:01 PM
>>>> To: luni-announce-chicago-/[email protected], Association for Computing =
Machinery <[email protected]>
>>>> Cc: luni-chicago-/[email protected], DePaul Linux Community <dlc@mailman=
.depaul.edu>
>>>> Subject: 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. =A0You
>>>> 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:
>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>>> 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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>>>>> --
>>>>> Samir Faci
>>>>> *insert title*
>>>>> fortune | cowsay -f /usr/share/cows/tux.cow
>>>>>
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