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== Details ==
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;Speaker: Richard M. Stallman
;Title: Free Software and Your Freedom
;When: Monday October 26, 2015 at 3:30-5pm
;Where: [http://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/cmu Communications Building (CMU) 120] at the University of Washington
;Summary: Richard Stallman will introduce and discuss the free software movement. The free software movement campaigns for computer users' freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used together with the kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible.
== Biography ==
== Biography ==


Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the [http://gnu.org GNU operating system], a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the [http://wwwfsf.org Free Software Foundation].
Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the [http://gnu.org GNU operating system], a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.


Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed a number of widely used software components of GNU, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system. Richard pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed a number of widely used software components of GNU, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system. Richard pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
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