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Free Software - Free Society! Richard Stallman talks in Edinburgh.

ab | 29.05.2004 09:21 | Indymedia | Technology

Pictures of Richard Stallman's talk at Edinburgh University, Informatics Colloquium. He is the author of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software -- to make sure the software is free for all its users.










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Richard Stallman spoke about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.

Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. Stallman currently serves as president of the Free Software Foundation. He is the author of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software -- to make sure the software is free for all its users.

Audio Interview available in ogg-vorbis format at Indymedia Scotland.

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