Richard M. Stallman 2005 - KL
Asix Solutions Sdn. Bhd. along with Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya and School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, will be organizing a seminar by Richard Stallman on Software Freedom and Danger of Software Patents. Invited representatives from MAMPU will also be speaking about the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Software Initiative .
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Aug 27, 2005 from 02:00 PM to 06:00 PM |
| Where | Dewan Kuliah 2, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya |
| Contact Name | Ditesh Kumar |
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Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free
Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU operating system,
which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of
millions of users world-wide.
Richard Stallman will also explain how software patents obstruct
software development. Software patents are patents that cover software
ideas. They restrict the development of software, so that every design
decision brings a risk of getting sued. Patents in other fields
restrict factories, but software patents restrict every computer user.
Economic research shows that they even retard progress.
About The Speaker
Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS; born March 16, 1953) is the founder of
the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software
Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He invented the
concept of copyleft to protect the ideals of this movement, and
enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License)
for software.
Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur
Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer
award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well
as several honorary doctorates.
He is a notable programmer whose major accomplishments include GNU
Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and the GNU Debugger. Since the mid-1990s Stallman has relinquished most of his software engineering duties in
order to focus on the advocacy of free software. His remaining
development time is devoted to GNU Emacs. He is currently supported by
various fellowships, maintaining a modest standard of living while
discharging his duties as an itinerant evangelist and "philosopher" of
free software.
