[IndiChix] Talk by Dr. Richard Stallman at Christ University on 16th

[Vikram Vincent]

Talk by Dr. Richard Stallman,
President of Free Software Foundation
Topic:"Role of free knowledge and free software in education and research"

Date:16th(Tuesday) December 2008
Time:10AM-12:30PM
Venue: Main auditorium, Christ University

About Richard Stallman:
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated
"rms", is an American software freedom activist, hacker
(programmer), and software developer. In September 1983, he
launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like 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 and,
in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation.

Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of
several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License,
the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s,
Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as
well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as
excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a
number of pieces of widely used software, including the original
Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, and the GNU Debugger. He
co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

The sessions are open to all.
For more details contact me via mail
vikram.vincent at christuniversity.in or +919448810822