A Free Digital Society
| Dates: | 26 June 2012 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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EPS/School of Computer Science.
Speaker : Dr Richard Stallman, Free Software Movement.
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. 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. 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.
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Theatre A
Roscoe Building
Manchester
