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

[Sujita Purushothaman]

Anybody from LivLUG attending? 

Rgds
Sujita 

On 20 Jun 2012, at 09:24, Michael Dorrington <michael.dorrington at gmail.com> wrote:

> To clarify/confirm (as a few people have asked) the event is in Roscoe
> Building.  See Manchester Uni page for the correct details:
> 
> http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/events/2012/stallman/
> 
> Regards,
> Mike.
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> On 19/06/12 08:11, Michael Dorrington wrote:
>> Please feel free to forward this to those that would welcome it.
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> 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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