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Richard Stallman Speaks at Loyola
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Oct 17, 2008 from 03:00 pm to 05:30 pm |
| Where | Finnegan Auditorium (Damen Hall Room 144) at 6430 N. Kenmore on the Lake Shore Campus |
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Speaker
Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
Title
Free Software in Ethics and in PracticeAbstract
Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.Bio Sketch
Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. The GNU/Linux system (ie. the GNU operating system with Linux as its kernel) is free software –-- everyone has the freedom to run, to study, to alter, to redistribute, to improve, and to release. It is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman also developed the technique of Copyleft as embodied in the GNU General Public License. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
