From bff436312422014ce89e0e762754d570ba2a999c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Webmaster
+Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU Operating System, which +in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide. +
++Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and +redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is +used on tens of millions of computers today. +
++"The reason I care especially, is that there is a philosophy associated with the GNU project, and this philosophy is actually the reason why there +is a system--and that is that free software is not just convenient and not just reliable.... More important than convenience and reliability is +freedom--the freedom to cooperate. What I'm concerned about is not individual people or companies so much as the kind of way of life that we have. +That's why I think it's a distraction to think about fighting Microsoft." +
++BIO +Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the +Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. +
++The Q&A session (starting shortly after the hour and half mark) possed a number of interesting questions including, "Do you support the Creative +Commons license?" and "Can I use ATI and NVIDIA drivers because Mesa isn't nearly as complete?". +
++The talk is only available in Ogg Theora, in keeping with Richard Stallman's wishes. +
+A talk for those interested in 3-dimensional graphics but unsure of