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[Frederick Noronha]

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Linux-Announce Digest #262, Volume #4          Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:13:02 EST

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  NEWS: Book release in Hyderabad (forwarded) (Frederick Noronha)

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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: Book release in Hyderabad (forwarded)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:25:49 CST

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:10:24 +0530
From: "Dr. Atul Negi" <atulcs@uohyd.ernet.in>
Subject: Towards Free Software A book Release


No Sir, No Monopoly
Free Software: A Perspective
                         ---Richard Stallman
A book Published by Prajasakti Book House

Date             Friday 20-12-02
Venue     Sundarayya Vignana Kendram
          Bagh Lingam Palli
          Hyderabad.

Time                     6-00pm

Presided by          Ashhar Fahran
                     IETF
                     Free Software Developer.

Inauguration by     J A Chowdary
                    President Managing Director for Indian Operations Portal Player

Guest Speaker       Dr. Atul Negi, 
                    Student Activities Chair IEEE Hyderabad Section
                    Reader, ( Associate Professor)
                    Dept of Computer and Information Sciences 
                    University of Hyderabad
                            

This book is a collection of writings by Richard Stallman, espousing
the cause of free software, its philosophy and perspective. The book
explains the basic ideas of Free Software Movement, and the GNU
operating system that was developed so that people could use computers
in freedom. The struggle against imperialist globalization is waged on
several fronts. As the present age is called computer age this struggle
for free software assumes all the more significance. 

Not only the people in general but even many computer professionals
themselves  may not be aware of the strangle hold of Multinationals,
Microsoft in particular. Stallman in these articles lucidly explains the
paradoxes and perplexities of the issue.

While most of the software licenses take away the right to copy, study,
distribute and modify the software. The software developed by the free
software programmers is also distributed in the original 'source' form.
That means, any programmer can study, enhance and change the software
for their purpose without having to pay any royalty to anybody. A
developing country like India needs to constantly strive for cost
effective solutions.

Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project, launched in
1984 to develop the free operating system GNU. He is the principle author
of the GCC designed to support diverse architectures and multiple
languages which now supports over 30 different architectures and 7
programming languages. Stallman also wrote the symbolic Debugger(GDB),
GNU emacs, and various other GNU programs.

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