[CivicAccess-discuss] Richard Stallman à Montréal pour discuter libre et gouvernement

[Robert Tiessen]

For those of you in Calgary, Richard Stallman will be on the U of C 
Campus on February 3:



The 2009 Merv Leitch, Q.C.

Memorial Visiting Chair in Law Lecture

*                     By Richard Stallman
 *

Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system 
(see www.gnu.org <http://www.gnu.org>) in 1984. GNU is free software; 
everyone has the freedom to copy it, redistribute it, and make changes 
-- no matter how large or small -- to it. The GNU/Linux system, which is 
basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of 
millions of computers today. Stallman has received the Association for 
Computing Machinery's Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation 
fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the 
Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary 
doctorate degrees.

 * 
*

*"Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks"*

* *

*/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 
severe punishments, and to increase their copyright powers while 
suppressing public access to technology.  But according to Mr. Stallman, 
if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright 
-- to promote progress, for the benefit of the public -- then we must 
make changes in the other direction./*

* *

*Tuesday February 3, 2009*

*12:15 to 1:30 pm*

*Room 2370, Murray Fraser Hall*

* *




Rob Tiessen
Head, Access Services 
University of Calgary Library
tiessen at ucalgary.ca
403-220-6043



Robin Millette wrote:
> Bonjour, hi,
>
> (français en dessous)
> Richard Stallman will be in Montreal for a few days to give talks on
> Copyright at CUSEC and the Free Software Movement at Concordia. He's
> also available for an informal meeting Friday with people from GOSLING
> to talk free software and government. More details here:
> http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/2009/01/21/venez-rencontrer-richard-stallman/
>
> Richard Stallman sera à Montréal pour quelques jours pour donner des
> présentations sur le droit d'auteur à CUSEC et le movement du logiciel
> libre à Concordia. Il sera aussi disponible vendredi pour une
> rencontre informelle avec des gens de Oisillon pour discuter de libre
> et de gouvernement. Plus de détails ici :
> http://rym.waglo.com/wordpress/2009/01/21/venez-rencontrer-richard-stallman/
>
>   
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