<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrinivasan T <<a href="mailto:tshrinivasan@gmail.com">tshrinivasan@gmail.com</a>> Date: 2014/1/6 Subject: Richard M Stallman's talk at IIT Madras To: ILUG-C <<a href="mailto:ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in">ilugc@ae.iitm.ac.in</a>> RMS, the founder of Free Software Foundation gives a talk at IIT Madras. Topic: "Free Software and Your Freedom" Date : 7 January 2014 Time : 12.00 noon Venue : IC & SR Main Auditorium (near Gajendra Circle). IIT Madras, chennai Entry Free. All are welcome. About Richard Stallman Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and started the development of the GNU operating system (see <a href="http://www.gnu.org" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a>) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. 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, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. Grab this opportunity to interact with Richard Stallman and listen to him speak about his life and work with both hands, only at Shaastra Lecture Series 2014! <a href="http://www.fsf.org/events/20140107-chennai" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/events/20140107-chennai</a> <a href="http://www.shaastra.org/2014/main/#lectures_page" target="_blank">http://www.shaastra.org/2014/main/#lectures_page</a> -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : <a href="http://goinggnu.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://goinggnu.wordpress.com</a> Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : <a href="http://kaniyam.com" target="_blank">http://kaniyam.com</a> Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : <a href="http://www.collab.net/svnedge" target="_blank">http://www.collab.net/svnedge</a> </div> -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : <a href="http://goinggnu.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://goinggnu.wordpress.com</a> Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : <a href="http://kaniyam.com" target="_blank">http://kaniyam.com</a> Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : <a href="http://www.collab.net/svnedge" target="_blank">http://www.collab.net/svnedge</a> </div>