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Why Freedom Matters

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«...That statement packages several questionable assumptions:

1. That the only motive for developing free software is ideological.

2. That innovation in software requires a lot of funding.

3. That the only way to fund software research is through proprietary software.

4. That innovation is more important than freedom.

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Leader in free software movement speaks at UdeM

http://nbbusinessjournal.canadaeast.com

"...For Richard Stallman, the danger lies in the fine print. To Stallman, the fact it's illegal to copy, modify or give away much of today's computer software is an assault on people's fundamental rights and freedoms. But he knows it's all there, written down, saying that people can't do it. So for almost 25-years, it's this fine print he's been fighting..."

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Governments Should Support the Free Software Movement

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«...On this subject, I had an interesting email conversation with Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, who differentiated for me the difference between "open source" and "free software," ...» -- Free Software, Free Society: Why Barack Obama should support the Free Software Movement

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World March for Peace and Nonviolence - Richard Stallman

http://www.marchamundial.org

« When businesses have special influence on politics it means that the democracy is sick. The purpose of democracy is to make sure that the rich do not have influence proportional to their wealth. And if those who have more have more influence than I do, that means that the democracy is dying. Laws created this way have no moral authority, but only the capacity to do harm. »

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Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig (99 of 108)

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«... In a math department, anyone would be free to tinker with a proof that someone offered. If you thought you had a better way to prove a theorem, you could take what someone else did and change it. In a classics department, if you believed a colleague's translation of a recently discovered text was flawed, you were free to improve it.

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Plug-in architecture on the way for the GCC

http://www.sdtimes.com

"When Richard Stallman began writing Bison in 1983, he was only trying to build the bits of an operating system he would need to write an operating system. But that recursive goal was no stranger than the recursive name he would create for the software he would eventually create: GNU is Not Unix (GNU).

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Computer pioneer Richard Stallman gives UW talk on free software

http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca

"WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009) -- An American computer software pioneer, Richard Stallman, will discuss the global free software movement during a public lecture this week at the University of Waterloo..."

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Winning the Gnu

http://www.globalnerdy.com

«... John Sullivan: Thank you for buying the GNU — as a result we have been enjoying listening in to your Microsoft dealings from the FSF office :) ... »

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Why colleges should exclusively use Free Software?

http://annauniv-tamilnadu.blogspot.com

"Richard Stallman is the father of Free Software. I am republishing one of his essay here on why schools should exclusively use Free software..."

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The Free Software Movement

http://www.fsf.org

"Troy, NY. Darrin Communications Center, room 308, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms.

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Richard Stallman in VanCity

http://geeksandglobaljustice.com

"Richard Stallman, otherwise known as rms or the founder of the free software movement, will be in town for a series of lectures at UBC and BCIT. I have been reading Stallman’s stuff since I wrote my master’s thesis in 2003. Although sometimes passed off as a crank, much of Stallman’s work has proven accurate, insightful and even prescient over the years.

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Richard M. Stallman at the Université de Moncton

http://stallman-at-umoncton.eventbrite.com

"The Department of informatics at the Université de Moncton, as well as its Student Council are happy to invite you to attend Dr. Stallman’s conference on Free Software in Ethics and in Practice. Dr. Stallman is a renowned computer scientist who launched the development of the well known free GNU operating system in 1984.

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Latha Jishnu: Kerala's inspiring new revolution

http://www.business-standard.com

"Across classrooms, government departments and public undertakings in Kerala, a quiet but radical shift is taking place. Students, teachers and bureaucrats have thrown proprietary software out of the windows and switched to free software.

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India gets its own operating system

http://www.itexaminer.com

Father of free software Richard Stallman is visiting Hyderabad to oversee the migration of thousands of computers to a new "Indian" operating system.

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IT Giants Conference Kraków 2009 - January 14 2009

http://itgiants.org

" For all the fans and enthusiasts of FREE SOFTWARE as well as for students and specialists of IT and related disciplines Special Guest Star: Richard Stallman ..."

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