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The Green Bench and the Whanganui Environment Centre present:

An evening with Richard Stallman.

The father of free software and the GNU/Linux Operating system will give a talk at:

6.30pm Tuesday August 12th

Davis Lecture Theatre
Watt Street
Whanganui

Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide.

We've also asked him to speak about connections between Free Software Movement and the Environmental Movement if he has time.

Brief bio:

Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984.  GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small.  The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today.  Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.