Holy .....Me thinks I will be leaving work early that day...
---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:35:19 -0400 >From: Derek Juba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [UM-LINUX] [Fwd: Re: Distinguished Guest Speaker - Richard Stallman >- Wednesday, April 18, 2007] >To: [email protected] > >In case anyone on the list didn't get this announcement... >________________ >Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:53:53 -0400 >From: "Findlay, Adelaide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Distinguished Guest Speaker - Richard Stallman - Wednesday, >April 18, 2007 >To: "dept" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "all-faculty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL >PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Department of Computer Science > >Richard Stallman >Cambridge, MA > > >Talk - CSIC Building, Room 1115 - 4:00 p.m. >Reception at 3:30 p.m. CSIC Lobby > >Title: Free Software in Ethics and in Practice > >Abstract: >Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free >Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU operating system, >which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of >millions of users world-wide. > >Bio: >Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system >(see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the >freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes >either large or small. 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 honorary doctorates. > >_______________________________________________ >Gradlist mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.cs.umd.edu/mailman/listinfo/gradlist
