[Bradford] Fwd: [lugmaster] RMS visit in August

[Brian]

If we do try it may be wise to take heed of the content in some paragraphs I 
have pasted below from Wikipedia. In a nutshell it appears that he is very 
strict on terminology.

Brian

Quote:

One of his criteria for giving an interview to a journalist is that  the 
journalist agree to use his terminology throughout the article.[53] Sometimes he 
has even required journalists to read parts of the GNU philosophy before an 
interview, for "efficiency's sake".[citation needed] He has been known to turn 
down speaking requests over some terminology issues.[54]
Stallman rejects a common alternative term, open source software, because it 
does not call to mind what Stallman sees as the value of the software: 
freedom.[55] Thus it will not inform people of the freedom issues, and will not 
lead to people valuing and defending their freedom.[56] Two alternatives which 
Stallman does accept are software libre and  unfettered software, but free 
software is the term he asks people to use  in English. For similar reasons, he 
argues for the term "proprietary software" rather than "closed source software", 
when referring to software that is not free software.
Stallman repeatedly asks that the term GNU/Linux, which he pronounces "GNU slash 
Linux", be used  to refer to the operating system created by combining the GNU 
system  and the Linux kernel. Stallman refers to this operating system as "a  
variant of GNU, and the GNU Project is its principal developer."[54] He claims 
that the connection between the GNU project's philosophy and  its software is 
broken when people refer to the combination as merely  Linux.[57] Starting 
around 2003, he began also using the term GNU+Linux, which he pronounces "GNU 
plus Linux".
Stallman argues that the term intellectual property is designed to confuse 
people, and is used to prevent intelligent discussion on the specifics of 
copyright, patent, trademark and other laws by lumping together areas of law 
that are more dissimilar than similar.[58] He also argues that by referring to 
these laws as property laws, the  term biases the discussion when thinking about 
how to treat these  issues.

Unquote.





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Should we try?
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From: "Michael Dorrington" <michael.dorrington at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2011 8:41 PM
Subject: [lugmaster] RMS visit in August
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Richard Stallman (aka RMS), founder of the Free Software Foundation
(FSF), GNU's Not Unix (GNU) and the Free Software Movement is in
Edinburgh on 26th-28th August and can give a few speeches in other
places in the UK before this. If you have a good venue for him then
please let me know and I'll pass it on.

Regards,
Mike.



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