General

Richard Stallman on The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System

Thursday, 27 May 2004
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Organizer: Informatics Colloquium

Richard Stallman will speak and 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.

Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. Stallman currently serves as president of the Free Software Foundation. He is the author of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software -- to make sure the software is free for all its users.

Free As in Freedom

For more info contact: hhalpin at ibiblio.org
The Free Software Foundation - GNU Project: http://www.gnu.org
For more information on Free Software in Scotland: http://www.yourmachines.org

Location:
George Square Lecture Theatre
Edinburgh

Cost: Free

Directions: position 34 on the Central Campus Map:
www.ed.ac.uk/maps/

URL: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/colloquium/