[H-GEN] RICHARD STALLMAN talks about the Free Software movement

Raymond Smith raymonds at uq.net.au
Wed Apr 28 00:07:32 EDT 1999


(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Raymond Smith <raymonds at uq.net.au>)

FYI

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Subject: RICHARD STALLMAN talks about the Free Software movement

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Date:    Wed, 28 Apr 99 14:38:41 +1100
From:    "Duncan Unwin" <dxu at qad.com>
To:      qauug at auug.org.au
Subject: [AUUG] Meeting Announcement - Richard Stallman





                    M E E T I N G    A C C O U N C E M E N T

                          AUUG Inc. (Queensland Chapter)


               RICHARD STALLMAN talks about the Free Software movement


               VENUE:         Software Engineering Australia
                              Level 2
                              107 Quay Street, Brisbane

               DATE/TIME:     6 pm to 8 pm, Monday, 10 May 1999

               COST:          Free to AUUG Members, $5 for non-members

               !!!!!!  PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT DATE/TIME and VENUE !!!!!!!!


About Richard Stallman
=======================

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 themhave lost.
GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it andredistribute 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 ofGNU/Linux systems today.

Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, a portable
optimizing compiler which wasdesigned 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.

For more information email qauug-exec at auug.org.au or telephone Duncan Unwin
on 0417 280 849.





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