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Richard Stallman Gives Keynote Address in a Few Hours

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 27, 2025,
updated Jan 27, 2025

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Some hours ago Richard Stallman's personal site was updated to give more details about the talk he's due to give in the afternoon after last week's talks.

It's probably a good time to read "Freedom Fighters (Part 1)" by Dr. Andy Farnell. As Farnell put it last week, "[a]nyone who really fights for humanity will tell you, there's nothing romantic or racy about it. The reality is mundane sacrifice, hard work, forgoing family and relationships, being unpopular, made to feel like an outsider, criminal or traitor, missed opportunities in life, relative poverty and stigma."

He also said: "A true exemplar of Digital Freedom Fighters is surely Dr. Richard Stallman, a slightly overweight old man. suffering cancer, social anxiety and having some offensive personal traits. He travels around on budget airlines and overnight Greyhound buses, staying in cheap hotel rooms or on the floor of kindly supporters. His supporters love him. A Harvard graduate and highly respected programmer at MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, while the likes of Altman, Zuckerberg and Musk were still struggling through school, Stallman could have named any prize in technology he wanted. But he chose a different path. Richard Stallman chose to stand for the rights of people to use technology as they wish. He chose freedom instead of riches."

Dr. Richard Stallman, a pioneer in the free software movement, will share his insights on the future of digital freedom at The Summit of Future!

One hour ago in Nazi Twitter (aka "X").

This is in their own site:

Founder of GNU Project

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