Re: Talk by Prof Stallman at IISc

[Ramakrishnan M <rkrishnan@xxxxxx>]

"Ravikant K. Rao" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   Can non IISC people attend these seminars ? I think I would be in bangalore on feb 22 - I would appreciate an early 
Yes . It's possible. RMS is said to be insisting this to the authorities. BTW,
the date is changed to 23rd.

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 03:43:42 -0500
From: Dr K Gopinath <gopi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Richard Stallman's talk


Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation/GNU Project,
will be giving 2 talks back2back on Feb 23, 4pm-6, Faculty Hall.

Pl. note the change in date. Pl. circulate to any interested parties.

The abstract:

    Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement and the
    development of the GNU operating system (often called "Linux"),
    including the goals, philosophy, methods, history, and the future
    challenges we must face.

Bio (from www.gnu.org/people/rms.html):

Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984
to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for ``GNU's Not
Unix''), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them
have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and
redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small.

Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel
Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are
estimated to be over 10 million users of GNU/Linux systems today.

Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, a
portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse
architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over
30 different architectures and 7 programming languages.

Stallman also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and
various other GNU programs.

Stallman received the Grace Hopper Award from the Association for
Computing Machinery for 1991 for his development of the first Emacs
editor in the 1970s.  In 1990 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation
fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute
of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the Electronic Frontier
Foundation's Pioneer award along with Linus Torvalds. In 1999 he
received the Yuri Rubinski Award.
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Gopi

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  Ramakrishnan M				
                      
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