Sharing knowledge and making codes available are some of the benefits provided by free software for the interactive community. This instrument nowadays has allowed such advances that it would be unthinkable for there to be setbacks in the area: it can be copied, changed and distributed without restriction. One of those responsible for this is Richard Matthew Stallman, founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and one of the authors of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).
Visiting Brazil, Stallman will give a lecture (in English) at Unicamp on the 31st, at the invitation of professor Islene Calciolari Garcia, within the context of the free software discipline at the Institute of Computing (IC). He will speak to students and interested parties about freedom as a user of computers and cell phones at 16 pm in room CB-06, in Basic Cycle 1. Admission is free.
O GNU in general, it is used in conjunction with the Linux kernel operating system by tens of millions of computers and, according to professor Islene, organizer of the event, Stallman identified four freedoms that people need to have control over computing, a topic that the specialist will also address in your presentation.
Currently, Stallman travels the world to raise awareness about the Free Software Movement, its ethical foundations and its social and political needs. In Brazil, he will give other lectures and will head to Argentina. The specialist has already been to Unicamp twice. Veja Stallman's agenda in Brazil.
He is the recipient of the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Economic/Social Enhancement Award, and has received numerous Honorary Doctor and being inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. Since the 1990s, he has dedicated himself in part to political activism, defending free software and fighting against software patents and the expansion of copyright law. copyright, and has also dedicated himself to law.
Read text about Stallman No. Journal of UnicampIn 2001.
