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Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Organization: Sarai, CSDS MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Sarai Programme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Sarai Newsletter]Talk by RICHARD STALLMAN Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:01:22 +0530 Dear Friends, Sarai is happy to invite you to a talk on " Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks" by RICHARD STALLMAN, Founder, Free Software Foundation on 20 March, 2002, 3:30 pm at the Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 54. "COPYRIGHT developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress, for the benefit of the public--then what must be done is either to reduce copyright powers or effectively eliminate them, depending on the kind of work. Governments must now protect the public's right to copy." 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." Stallman has also founded the related Free Software Foundation (FSF) and is outspoken about his belief that all software should be free. In his view proprietary software, for which corporations charge a fee, is wrong from a moral or ethical standpoint. Warm Regards, Ranita The Sarai Programme Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi - 110054. Tel: 3960040, 3951190 Fax: 3928391, 3943450 www.sarai.net Landmarks: Near The Old Transport Authority. Near ISBT Directions: http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/delhi/roadcompanion/index.html ________________________________________ The Newsletter of the Sarai Programme, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, www.sarai.net Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe: send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in the subject header. Directions to Sarai: We are ten minutes from Delhi University. Nearest bus stop: IP college or Exchange Stores See Calendar and Newsletter online: http://www.sarai.net/calendar/newsletter.htm ------------------------------ 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 =================================================
