Fw: Richard Stallman talk (fwd)

[Chris Wong]

I don't know if this made it to the group...


> Please circulate:
>
> Speaker: Richard Stallman
> Date and Time: Monday, August 28, 2000, 3pm - 5pm
> Place: Art 132
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> Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to
> develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for ``GNU's Not
> Unix''), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them
> have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and
> redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small.
>
> Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux
> developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated
> to be over 10 million users of GNU/Linux systems today.
>
> Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, a
> portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse
> architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30
> different architectures and 7 programming languages.
>
> Stallman also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and
> various other GNU programs.
>
> Stallman received the Grace Hopper Award from the Association for
> Computing Machinery for 1991 for his development of the first Emacs
> editor in the 1970s. In 1990 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation
> fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute
> of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the Electronic Frontier
> Foundation's Pioneer award along with Linus Torvalds. In 1999 he
> received the Yuri Rubinski Award.
>
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