[Blackpool] Fwd: [MFS-Team] Talk by GNU Founder

[Michael Dorrington]

Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.

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Subject: [MFS-Team] Talk by GNU Founder
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:44:24 +0100
From: Martin Turner

Sorry for short-notice the GNU founder is coming to talk in Manchester
on Tuesday 26th June: all welcome and should be a very interesting talk.
He is very much a copy-left character as well as influential, and will
not be full of IT talk.

Can this be advertised on lists
thanks in advance, Martin


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Dr Richard Stallman, Free Software Movement. "A Free Digital Society
(alternate title; What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad?)"

Tuesday 26th June, 5:00pm-6:30pm Theatre A, Roscoe Building (The
University of Manchester)

Abstract: 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 behoves us to make sure it is
the good kind.

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.
http://www.fsf.org/events/20120626-manchester
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