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Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Original-Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:18:58 +0530 (IST) From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIG] Richard Stallman Talk (in Mumbai) on Sat Mar 23 (fwd) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:18:58 +0530 (IST) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear all, All of you are welcome to attend the lecture of Prof Stallman in IIT Bombay. george.. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G. Sivakumar) I am very happy to announce that Computer Centre, IIT Bombay is organizing a public lecture on Saturday March 23 at 16:00 in Convocation Hall by Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. More details are below, including pointers to useful background information. I encourage all students, staff & faculty to come prepared with "tough questions" as Prof. Stallman has promised lots of time for discussion. With best wihes, -- Siva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~siva] ============================= Professor Richard Stallman, MIT, founder of the Free Software Foundation and Gnu/Linux movement, will be delivering a Public Lecture on Date : Saturday 23 rd March, 2002 Time : 4 P.M. Venue : Convo Hall, IIT Bombay Topic : The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System Abstract: Richard Stallman will speak about the purpose, goals, philosophy, methods, status, and future prospects of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by an estimated 17 to 20 million users world wide. ======Additional Information============================== >>From Prof Stallman : >My usual speech about the Free Software Movement and GNU takes between >2 and 2.5 hours. That typically includes over one and a half hours of >my speaking, plus plenty of time for questions, because people usually >want to ask a lot of questions. >The Free Software Movement and the Open Source Movement are like two >political parties in our community. I founded the Free Software >Movement in 1984 along with the GNU Project; we call our work "free >software" because it is software that respects the users freedom. The >Open Source Movement was founded, in 1998, specifically to reject our >idealistic philosophy--they studiously avoid talking about freedom. >See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html for >more explanation of the difference between the two movements. >The other widespread confusion is the idea of a "Linux operating >system". The system in question, the system that Debian and Red Hat >distribute, the system that 20 million people use, is basically the >GNU operating system, with Linux added as the kernel. When people >call the whole system "Linux", they deny us the credit for our work, >and this is not right. (See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html >for more explanation.) ========================================== _______________________________________________ Linux-india-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general ------------------------------ End of this Digest ****************** -- Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
