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- Latest post made by Rik Tindall at Aug 10 07:58 UTC
Kia ora taatou, Kim Hill listeners on Canterbury Public Issues Forum (CPIF) may have heard yesterday's Richard Stallman interview: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom.ogg Computer users who value telecommunications independence know who this gentleman is, through his historic achievement - the GNU/Linux operating system - aided and abetted by a cast of thousands of computer programmers around the world. This real-time, borderless, perhaps futurist online community offers one of the best examples available as to what "sustainability" actually is, keeping alive as it does the sharing principle (beyond 'intellectual property') without which computing could never have developed. The message, networks, and interoperability are important - fundamental even - to human survival in the face of emerging global crisis. Other examples of the level of influence held by the international innovation stable out of which GNU/Linux comes, are: the Internet itself; Apple Mac OSX (BSD); Wikipedia (based on GNU copyleft licensing); Mozilla Firefox web browser (open-source); Google search engine (GNU/Linux-based); and OnlineGroups.Net <http://onlinegroups.net> (the E-Democracy.Org <http://e-democracy.org> platform). So, it is with great and sincere appreciation that this card-carrying netizen can announce the Christchurch speaking details for Richard M Stallman ('RMS'), thanks to the University of Canterbury's Computer Science & Software Engineering <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> department, and their Free Culture Club <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/freeculture/>. Date: Saturday 16 August Time: 2:00-4:30pm Place: Lecture Theatre Arts 1 - A1, east of James Hight Library - University of Canterbury Topic: /Computers, GNU and Free Culture. /A1 has capacity for 320 persons, and expect it to be packed. Looking forward to seeing CPIF members, the General Public, and our License initiator - RMS / GPL - there. Regards, Rik
RMS comments, and edits, as follows: A few points need to be corrected in the announcement of Richard Stallman's visit: * MacOS X should not be cited as a positive achievement. That proprietary (non-free) operating system implements Digital Restrictions Management and has intentional back doors, so it is just as evil as Windows. See DefectiveByDesign.org. * We regret speaking of "intellectual property" as if that referred to a coherent concept. It is an overgeneralization which doesn't really make any sense at all. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html for more explanation of this. * Mozilla was described as "open source", a term which should not have been used, since it refers to a different philosophy which Stallman disagrees with. For more explanation of the difference, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html. Please stop propagating the previous announcement and replace it with this corrected version: Kim Hill listeners on Canterbury Public Issues Forum (CPIF) may have heard yesterday's Richard Stallman interview: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20080809-0845-Richard_Stallman_Freedom.ogg Computer users who value telecommunications independence know who this gentleman is, through his historic achievement - the GNU/Linux operating system - aided and abetted by a cast of thousands of computer programmers around the world. This real-time, borderless, perhaps futurist online community offers one of the best examples available as to what "sustainability" actually is, keeping alive as it does the sharing principle without which computing could never have developed. The message, networks, and interoperability are important - fundamental even - to human survival in the face of emerging global crisis. Other examples of the level of influence held by the international innovation stable out of which GNU/Linux comes, are: the Internet itself; Wikipedia (based on GNU copyleft licensing); Mozilla Firefox web browser (free software); Google search engine (GNU/Linux-based); and OnlineGroups.Net <http://onlinegroups.net> (the E-Democracy.Org <http://e-democracy.org> platform). So, it is with great and sincere appreciation that this card-carrying netizen can announce the Christchurch speaking details for Richard M Stallman ('RMS'), thanks to the University of Canterbury's Computer Science & Software Engineering <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> department, and their Free Culture Club <http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/freeculture/>. Date: Saturday 16 August Time: 2:00-4:30pm Place: Lecture Theatre Arts 1 - A1, east of James Hight Library - University of Canterbury Topic: Computers, GNU and Free Culture. A1 has capacity for 320 persons, and expect it to be packed.