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4/21    RMS is giving a talk at the Farm next Friday, April 30th:
        http://stanfordacm.com/2010/04/dinner-with-richard-stallman
        \_ Gnu's Not Useful
        \_ Will he eat something from his foot?
        \_ Old XCF Saying:
           Yaroslav:RMS is giving a talk in soda hall.
           Gene: Do you have a gun?

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stanfordacm.com/2010/04/dinner-with-richard-stallman -> stanfordacm.com/2010/04/dinner-with-richard-stallman/Stallman -- computer hacker extraordinaire, creator of GNU, founder of the FSF, and lifeblood of the free software movement -- is coming to speak at Stanford! The Stanford ACM is also planning to organize a dinner with Richard Stallman on April 29th. Although we have limited funds and can only take a small number of students to dinner, please email me (feross@) if you would like to attend and we will figure it out. These are the details of his talk: Richard Stallman Tech Talk April 30th @ 11 AM - 1 PM Stanford University, Room Hewlett 201 THIS TALK IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Richard Stallman will talk about "A Free Digital Society." Activities directed at "including" more people in the use of digital technology are predicated on the assumption that such inclusion is invariably a good thing. It appears so, when judged solely by immediate practical convenience. However, if we also judge in terms of human rights, whether digital inclusion is good or bad depends on what kind of digital world we are to be included in. If we wish to work towards digital inclusion as a goal, it behooves us to make sure it is the good kind. 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. 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.