[Fsf-india] [Sarai Newsletter]Talk by RICHARD STALLMAN (fwd)

[Frederick Noronha]

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Dear Friends,

Sarai is happy to invite you to a talk 

on " Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks" 

by RICHARD STALLMAN, Founder, Free Software Foundation

on 20 March, 2002, 3:30 pm 

at the Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 54.



"COPYRIGHT developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to 
fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press.  
But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only 
draconian punishments can enforce it. The global corporations that profit 
from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their 
copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology.  But if we 
seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote 
progress, for the benefit of the public--then what must be done is either to 
reduce copyright powers or effectively eliminate them, depending on the kind 
of work.  Governments must now protect the public's right to copy." 


RICHARD STALLMAN is "the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to 
develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix''), and 
thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is 
free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to 
make changes either large or small."

Stallman has also founded the related Free Software Foundation (FSF) and is 
outspoken about his belief that all software should be free. In his view  
proprietary software, for which corporations charge a fee, is wrong from a 
moral or ethical standpoint.


Warm Regards,

Ranita
The Sarai Programme
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
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