[SLUG] I could give a Stallman talk

[Al Girling]

John Allsopp wrote:
> Hi ppl
> 
> I've been reading "Free as in Freedom", I don't know whether it's
> quite a biography of Richard Stallman, but it does tell his story.
> 
> I was talking to a Sluggy and mentioned his name and received "who?"
> Stallman's the Daddy, possibly more so than Torvalds. The GPL is his.
> Emacs was him. Gnu is his. His story brings in many of the free
> software movements greats .. Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Ian Murdock
> .. and it explains free software and where the term open source came
> from.
> 
> I could do a half hour book summary presentation if anyone would be
> interested in that. We could pencil it in for the November meeting and
> see whether I get my stuff together for it.
> 
> Anyone up for that or not?

Sounds good to me, could well drag me out of my home and back over to
Scarborough again with that.

Toodle pip,

Al

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