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Subject: [talks] CS Distinguished Lecture, TODAY @ 2PM, Richard
Stallman, Free Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:45:31 -0500
From: David Breen <david@cs.drexel.edu>
To: talks@cs.drexel.edu
You are invited to a
Drexel University Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
The Danger of Software Patents
Richard Stallman
Free Software Foundation
Date:
TODAY, Tuesday, January 16, 2007
2:00 PM
Location:
Bossone Research Center Auditorium
(3100 block of Market Street)
Abstract
The lecture will explain how software patents obstruct software
development. Software patents are patents that cover software ideas.
They restrict the development of software, so that every design
decision brings a risk of getting sued. Patents in other fields
restrict factories, but software patents restrict every computer
user. Economic research shows that they even retard progress.
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 Takeda Award for Social/Economic
Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
A book-signing will follow the lecture.
Refreshments will be served before and after the lecture.
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Talks@cs.drexel.edu
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