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

[Sujita Purushothaman]

Actually I was there :-) hence the question.....

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On 26 Jun 2012, at 18:43, Dan Lynch <dan at danlynch.org> wrote:

> I'm sorry to say I think you've missed this. It was 5pm - 6:30pm Tuesday June 26th.
> 
> I'm told that RMS is due back in the UK twice later this year though. So you should get another chance to see him :)
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Jun 26, 2012 6:11 PM, "Sujita Purushothaman" <sujita.purushothaman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> > free software users."
> >
> > 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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