{"id":311,"date":"2011-04-14T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/?p=311"},"modified":"2011-04-14T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:12:42","slug":"richard-stallman-founder-of-the-free-software-foundation-and-the-gnu-project-talk-april-19-230pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2011\/04\/richard-stallman-founder-of-the-free-software-foundation-and-the-gnu-project-talk-april-19-230pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, talk April 19 @ 2:30pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation  and the GNU Project, main author of the GNU General Public License, and  dedicated software freedom activist will be visiting Seton Hall  University on April 19, 2:30pm \u2013 4:30pm in the Jubilee Hall Auditorium.  Please encourage your students to attend this exciting talk.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stallman will be giving a talk entitled &#8220;Copyright vs. Community in  the Age of Computer Networks&#8221;. The talk is geared towards the general  public and anyone interested in free speech, copyright, and related  issues should find it very interesting. The talk is open to the public  and is sponsored by the Student Government Association (SGA).<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Linux Operating System,  which today is used by millions of computers, runs most of the Internet,  powers everything from Supercomputers to eReaders and Smartphones, and \u2013  best of all \u2013 is available for free, including its source code. Richard  Stallman played a major role in the evolution of Linux, and without the  &#8220;GNU General Public License&#8221; Wikipedia and other high-profile projects  would not be possible.<\/p>\n<p>About the talk: 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&#8211;to promote progress, for  the benefit of the public&#8211;then we must make changes in the other  direction.<\/p>\n<p>About the author: Richard M. Stallman is the recipient of numerous  awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a Grace Murray  Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, and holds  several honorary doctorates from, among others, the Royal Institute of  Technology, Sweden, the University of Glasgow, UK, the Universidad  Nacional de Ingenier\u00eda, Peru, and Lakehead University, Canada. He  launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system and  has been the project&#8217;s lead architect and organizer. He also founded  the Free Software Foundation to promote the universal freedom to create,  distribute and modify computer software. Stallman has written many  essays on software freedom and is an outspoken political campaigner for  the free software movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, main author of the GNU General Public License, and dedicated software freedom activist will be visiting Seton Hall University on April 19, 2:30pm \u2013 4:30pm in the Jubilee Hall Auditorium. Please encourage your students to attend this exciting talk. Dr. Stallman will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2011\/04\/richard-stallman-founder-of-the-free-software-foundation-and-the-gnu-project-talk-april-19-230pm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project, talk April 19 @ 2:30pm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}