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Most of these should be available upon request at the Computer Science Club office to be burnt to CD or DVD should you so choose. |
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<mediaitem title="The Free Software Movement and GNU/Linux Operating System, a talk by Richard Stallman at UCSD"> |
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Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU Operating System, which |
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in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide. |
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Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and |
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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 |
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used on tens of millions of computers today. |
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"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 |
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is a system--and that is that free software is not just convenient and not just reliable.... More important than convenience and reliability is |
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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. |
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That's why I think it's a distraction to think about fighting Microsoft." |
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BIO |
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Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the |
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Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates. |
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The Q&A session (starting shortly after the hour and half mark) possed a number of interesting questions including, "Do you support the Creative |
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Commons license?" and "Can I use ATI and NVIDIA drivers because Mesa isn't nearly as complete?". |
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The talk is only available in Ogg Theora, in keeping with Richard Stallman's wishes. |
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<p>A talk for those interested in 3-dimensional graphics but unsure of |
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