I, for one, would enjoy that highly.
--- Nick Floersch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, hell, that means he is spending the night in > the area! Anyone know > where? Can we go get a beer with on Thursday night? > It might be fun to > be berated by a drunk genius. > > > -Nick > -----Original Message----- > From: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of jonathan d p ferguson > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RMS at St. Michael's and Champlain College > > hi. > > FYI: > > Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software > Foundation (FSF) and > founder of the GNU Project (http://www.gnu.org/), > will be speaking in > the > Burlington area on April 17 and 18. > > o Thursday, April 17, 4:30 p.m., St. Michael's > College; > "Copyright versus > Community in the Age of Computer Networks" in > Cheray 101 > > o Friday, April 18, 9:30 a.m., Champlain > College; "The Free Software > Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System" in the > Alumni Auditorium. > > GNU is "free software" and a different concept from > open source > software. > Per the GNU Web site... > > ===== > "Free software" is a matter of liberty, not price. > To understand the > concept, you should think of "free" as in "free > speech", not as in "free > beer". > > Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to > run, copy, > distribute, > study, change and improve the software. More > precisely, it refers to > four > kinds of freedom, for the users of the software: > * The freedom to run the program, for any > purpose (freedom 0). > * The freedom to study how the program works, > and adapt it to > your needs > (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a > precondition for this. > * The freedom to redistribute copies so you can > help your neighbor > (freedom 2). > * The freedom to improve the program, and > release your > improvements to > the public, so that the whole community benefits > (freedom 3). Access > to the > source code is a precondition for this. > ===== > > 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 Takeda > Award for > Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several > honorary doctorates. > > For more information see: > http://www.fsf.org/events/colchestervt20080417 > http://www.fsf.org/events/burlington20080418 > > I am not the organizer of either of these (see the > links above for > organizer information). As I'm an Adjunct instructor > at Champlain > College, I thought I'd make this list aware of the > second event in > the Burlington Area. > > Thanks! > > have a day.yad > jdpf > Tony Tambasco tonytambasco.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: 716-450-8148 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
