[WARC] Richard Stallman speaking at UofM

[Russell Marsolek]

Who is he and is it ham related?

RLM / N0QK

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Subject: [WARC] Richard Stallman speaking at UofM

Date of Event: 
Tue, 10/21/2008 18:30 
Location: 
Willey Hall 175, West Bank campus

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16 (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_16 ), 1953 (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953 )), often abbreviated "rms",[2] (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-initials-1 ) is an
American ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States ) software freedom (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software ) activist (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism ), hacker (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(free_and_open_source_software) )
(programmer),[3] ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-2
) and software developer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developer
). In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project )[4] (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-3 ) to create a free
Unix-like ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like ) operating system (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system ), and has been the project's
lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he started
the free software movement (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement ) and, in October 1985,
set up the Free Software Foundation (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation ).
Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft ) and is the main author of several
copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License ), the most widely
used free software license (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_license ).[5] (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#cite_note-4 ) Since the
mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software ), as well as campaigning
against both software patents ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
) and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright ) laws. Stallman has also developed a
number of pieces of widely used software, including the original Emacs (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs ), the GNU Compiler Collection (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection ), and the GNU Debugger
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Debugger ). He co-founded the League for
Programming Freedom (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_for_Programming_Freedom ) in 1989
 
 
The announcement is at 
http://www.umsec.umn.edu/events/Richard-Stallman-Free-Software-Movement-and-
GNULin 
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