"The Free Software Movement and GNU/Linux"
Richard Stallman Talk in Edinburgh 3 pm Thursday 27th of May
Informatics Colloquium George Square Lecture Theatre in City Centre of Edinburgh, in George Square at the University of Edinburgh Directions and info: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/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*
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The Free Software Foundation - GNU Project: http://www.gnu.org For more information on Free Software in Scotland: http://www.yourmachines.org
Also there is a Free Software Social the day before Wednesday 26th May at 8pm there will be a Free Software Social in the
Upstairs Bar at Communications Workers Union
15 Brunswick Street Edinburgh EH7 5JB
This is a few streets away from the top of Leith Walk.
All are welcome, do come along if interested in free software.
Depending on his schedule we hope that Richard Stallman will be there for about 1/2 hour. He will not be giving a talk there but would like to meet and socialise with anyone with connections to Free Software in Edinburgh.
It would be really good to see people who are wishing to build a world
community with our means of doing held in common meet up with those who try and make this happen in area of software.
Our creative urges unleased as the digital commons is our work/play ground.
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