Fw: Richard Stallman talk (fwd)

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wow! is this at the main lecture hall at the Art school at UH Manoa?

Chris Wong wrote:

> 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
> > ==============
> >
> > 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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