[WARC] Richard Stallman speaking at UofM

[Russell Marsolek]

Thanks Clare for the information.

RLM / N0QK

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Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [WARC] Richard Stallman speaking at UofM

Russ,
 Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation.   Along
with 
Torval L created the GNU/Linux operating system.  There is no direct link 
between Stallman and HAM radio that I am aware of but much software for ham 
radio starts with Linux.

Clare





On Monday 20 October 2008 09:59:57 Russell Marsolek wrote:
> Who is he and is it ham related?
>
> RLM / N0QK Richard Stallman


>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Lance Tagliapietra
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 8:27 AM
> To: warc at lists.w0ne.org
> 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
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