RMS @ Cal this weekend: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/rms/
--------------------------------------------- "A Free Digital Society" Lecture by Dr. Richard Stallman at UC Berkeley Join UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff in Soda Hall for a lecture on A Free Digital Society by the software developer and software freedom activist Richard Stallman. Dr. Stallman founded the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation. He is the original author of Emacs, GCC, and the General Public License. GNU software, with a Linux kernel, is used on millions of computers today. Event details Date: Saturday, November 16, 2013 Time: 5:00 p.m. Attendance is first-come, first-served. Venue: 306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium), UC Berkeley Availability: Open to the general public About the speaker Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several doctorates honoris causa, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. About the talk There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They include massive surveillance, censorship, digital handcuffs, nonfree software that controls users, and the War on Sharing. Other threats come from use of web services. Finally, we have no positive right to do anything in the Internet; every activity is precarious, and can continue only as long as companies are willing to cooperate with it.
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