Dr. Richard Stallman Giving Talks in India

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-10-24 13:42:30 UTC
Modified: 2022-10-24 13:42:30 UTC

"The Free Software Movement and GNU" due tomorrow in person

The Free Software Movement and GNU

Summary: The founder of the GNU/Linux operating system, Dr. Richard Stallman (RMS), speaks in India in about 20 hours

Some days ago we mentioned an upcoming talk in IIT Hyderabad. There's more information online now:

Title: The Free Software Movement and GNU

The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users’ freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used together with the kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today.

Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award and the ACM Software and Systems Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as many doctorates honoris causa, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

EML – VLS Joint Lecture of Dr Richard Stallman is made possible with the support of IIT Extra Mural Lectures, Suzuki Innovation Centre, Department of Computer Science and Department of Design.

25th October 2022
5:30pm onwards
Venue: Auditorium, IIT Hyderabad

There's no mention of a live stream and the talk is not listed in Richard Stallman's personal site, but this takes place less than a day from now (about 20 hours). Dr. Stallman turns 70 on March 16^th next year and then GNU turns 40 (later in the same year).

As a side note, a few days ago the page with videos about GNU (mostly Dr. Stallman's speeches) started redirecting to an overhauled version. One of the videos there was encoded by us. ⬆

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