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Richard Stallman to Speak on Software Freedom and AI at Georgia Tech (itsfoss.com)
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Richard Stallman Makes a Come Back in his first public appearance at an US event

The free software movement has been around for over four decades now. It started as a response to proprietary software licenses that restricted people from understanding, modifying, or sharing the programs they ran on their computers.

At the center of this movement is the Free Software Foundation (FSF), founded in 1985. It has been the organizational backbone for promoting software freedom, maintaining crucial free software licenses like the GPL, and supporting projects that respect user rights.

Dr. Richard Stallman has been at the forefront of this movement from day one, along with countless other people who joined up to make their collective vision a reality. If you want to hear from him directly, he's speaking at Georgia Tech on January 23.

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[-] Asetru@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago

do not know what happened

I mean, the video is linked above? It's also kind of anticlimactic as he just listens to the guy giving a talk, silently picking his foot, then eating whatever he got from it.

Also... It's nice to be not too judgemental. Seriously, keep that.

[-] andioop@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago

I'll freely admit that you know the "did not read the article and still commented" folks?

I'm a "didn't watch the video" person and had to be told by other people what happened.

Also, at least one of them someone linked me of the foot thing was age restricted so I Xed out and took them at their word.

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