Dear all please have a look to this coming from our friends in NDU in Beirut Not everybody likes Richard Stallman`s theories and behaviour:) but I think it would be definetely an event to attend for those of you who are in Beirut cheers dona
Richard Stallman at NDU on June 10th at 12:00 noon in Abu Khater Auditorium. Come and meet the founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project. You don’t want to miss this lecture. About the presenter: (copied from Wikipedia): Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms" is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project[2] 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 initiated the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.[3] 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, [4] the GNU Compiler Collection,[5] and the GNU Debugger.[6] He co- founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989. This event is organized by the Computer Science Department in collaboration with ma3bar, the Arab Support Center for Free & Open Source Software, the NDU ACM Student Chapter, and the ACM TCS Lebanon Section. Best, Fouad Chedid -- لقد تلقيت هذه الرسالة لأنك مشترك في المجموعة "CC Arab World المشاع الإبداعي" من مجموعات Google. للنشر في هذه المجموعة، أرسل بريدًا إلكترونيًا إلى [email protected] لإلغاء اشتراكك في هذه المجموعة، أرسل رسالة إلكترونية إلى [email protected]. للحصول على مزيد من الخيارات، يمكنك الانتقال إلى هذه المجموعة على العنوان http://groups.google.com/group/cc-arab-world?hl=ar.
