[GNUz] COSC dept hosts RMS talk

[Rik Tindall]

University of Canterbury, Ilam

>>   Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block]
>>   Date: Tuesday, 13/10/2009
>>   Time: 17:00-19:00
>>   Booked For:  Richard Stallman talk


Event Name: A free digital society

To make a digital society worthy of being included in, we must
overcome six menaces to freedom: surveillance, censorship, restricted
data formats, proprietary software, software as a service, and the War
on Sharing.


Bio: Richard Stallman

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.