Free Software Foundation founder speaks at Math and Computer Science Colloquium Series Mar. 27

Date: Mar. 27, 2008
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Jepson Hall, Room 109

Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, is a computer scientist who began the free software movement in 1984 with a project called GNU. GNU stands for GNU is Not UNIX and provided a replacement for the UNIX operating system that would respect the freedoms of those using it.The free software movement defines itself as a worldwide group of talented ethical programmers voluntarily committed to the idea of writing and sharing software with each other and with anyone else who agrees to share alike. It upholds that anyone could be a part of and benefit from this community, even without being a computer expert or knowing anything about programming. 

In 1985, Stallman started the Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit with the mission of advocating and educating on behalf of computer users around the world. The Free Software Foundation sponsors the GNU project, the ongoing effort to provide a complete operating system licensed as free software.  

Stallman will give a talk at the Math and Computer Science Colloquium Series on Thursday, March 27 at 4:00 p.m. in Jepson Hall, room 109.  

Posted March 18, 2008