[Fsf-friends] Richard Stallman's Talk at Hyderabad

[Sunil Mohan Adapa]

Title: Software and Freedom

Speaker: Richard M. Stallman

Location: Tagore Auditorium, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Time: 4 p.m., 20th October, 2006

"Free software is a fundamental requirement for a democratic and free
society in which we are surrounded by and dependent upon technical
devices." -- Eben Moglen.

Richard M. Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and
the GNU project, which has contributed the most significant part of
the GNU/Linux operating system. He is a scientist, a philosopher, a
music-lover and musician, and a most passionate programmer. Amonst
numerous notable creations and achievements, he has written the GCC
compiler, the GDB debugger and the Emacs editor, and has been awarded
four honorary Ph.Ds from universities around the world. Stallman
argues that software users should have the freedom to "share with
their neighbor" and to be able to study and make changes to the
software that they use and this forms the basis for the Free Software
movement. He is coming to Hyderabad to talk about the relationship
between software and freedom. All individuals passionate about
software and freedom, who believe that technological development is
most effective when we collaborate with each other must attend this
talk at 4 PM on the 20th of October to be held at Tagore Auditorium,
Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Links:
1) Free Software Foundation of India, Andhra Pradesh Chapter:
http://www.swecha.org/
2) Free Software Foundation of India: http://fsf.org.in

--
Sunil Mohan