Ethics and Practice of Free Software

by Dr Richard M. Stallman (Free Software Foundation)

Monday 18 Jun 2007, 17:00 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

SALLE DU CONSEIL (CERN)

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Dr. Richard Stallman is coming to Switzerland on June 18-19 to make the keynote speech of the conference

Free and open source software: challenges and opportunities

to be held at Lausanne.

He is our guest in the afternoon of June 18th.

About the speaker

Richard Matthew Stallman is a software freedom activist, hacker, and software developer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU project he started the free software movement, and in October 1985 set up the Free Software Foundation. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. (from Wikipedia)

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Organiser(s): Miguel Angel Marquina
Computing Seminars / IT Department

more information http://cern.ch/Computing.Seminars/2007/main.htm