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<h2>Week 9 - March 23/25 <br> Guest Lecture</h2>
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<h2>The GNU Project<br>
its philosophy, goals, history, status and future plans</h2>
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<a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/people/rms.html">
Richard Stallman</h3></a>
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WHERE: Room 303, Education Building,
35 West 4th Street (between Greene Street and Washington Square
East)
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WHEN: Monday, March 23, 3:20-4:40
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You can listen to a copy of the presentation on real audio here.It's 4.8
megabytes to download and 1 hour 20 minutes to listen to.
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<li><a HREF="rms-march23-98.ram">Streaming real audio</a>
<li><a HREF="rms-march23-98.ra">Download the real audio</a> (use
shift-click to download a copy to your computer. Otherwise it's just a
temporary copy to be played but not saved.
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Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software
Foundation, is one of the most unique contemporary thinkers on issues of
intellectual property rights. In addition to being an ace programmer,
he is an innovative manager of the GNU Project, which
provides the model for an alternative to software copyright laws.
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Stallman will speak about the history, philosophy, goals, current
status and future plans of the GNU Project. His
presentation will address issues that concern both software developers
and students of communications who are interested in the relationship
between technology, social interaction, and community.
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Stallman describes the aim of the GNU Project as being to develop a
free operating system and thereby give computer users the freedom that
he feels most of them have lost. The word "free" in this sense refers
to freedom, not price. GNU (an acronym for "GNU is Not UNIX") is free
software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as
to make changes either large or small. Variants of the GNU system,
based on the kernel Linux, are widely used today. Stallman will also
examine Netscape's recent accouncement to post the source code for its
Communicator 5.0 web browser -- perhaps as free software.
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Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C
Compiler, a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support
diverse architectures and multiple languages. He has also written the
GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs.
He received the Grace Hopper Award from the Association for Computing
Machinery for 1991 for his development of Emacs. In 1990 he was
awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary
doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden.
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The free software community owes Stallman a dept for his leadership,
vision, and philosophical integrity. His message is loud and clear.
<p>For further information about the GNU Project, visit
<a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/home.html">
http://www.gnu.org/home.html</a>
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<a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/people/rms.html">Visit Richard Stallman's
Homepage</a> http://www.gnu.org/people/rms.html
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<h3>This lecture is open to the university at large and has been widely
publicized. We anticipate significant attendance by students and
facultyw from other departments. </h3>
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<h3>Read</h3>
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<li><a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html">The GNU
Manifesto</a>
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
<li><a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">Words to
Avoid</a> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html
<li>
<a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.htmle">
Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator</a> by Alfie Kohn
Monday, 19 January 1987, Boston Globe
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html
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<h3>Browse</h3>
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<li><a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html">A speech
that Richard Stallman gave in 1986 at the Royal Institue of Technology in
Sweden</a> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html
<li><a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html">What is
Copyleft?</a>
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
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<a HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html">The Right to
Read</a> by Richard Stallman, February 1997 issue of Communications of the
ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
<li><a HREF="http://www.wired.com/wired/4.01/features/white.paper.html">
The Copyright Grab</a> by Pamela Samuelson, Wired, Jan. 1996
http://www.wired.com/wired/4.01/features/white.paper.html. Read
<a HREF="http://www.wired.com/wired/4.04/rants.html">a response</a>
at http://www.wired.com/wired/4.04/rants.html (scroll half way down the
page)..
<li>
<a HREF="http://www.public-domain.org/">
Union for the Public Domain</a> -- a new organization which aims to resist
and reverse the overextension of intellectual property powers.
http://www.public-domain.org/
<li>
<a HREF="http://www.ese.ogi.edu/sold.out.html">Sold Out</a>
by James Boyle, New York Times, 31 March 1996
http://www.ese.ogi.edu/sold.out.html
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<h3>Assignment</h3>
This is a continuation of the same assignment as for the previous session
with Robert Dewar.
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Do some online research on issues of intellectual property and GNU. Use
the search engines on the web. Report to the impacts list on your
findings, including sources such as urls, discussion list addresses,
article references. Include at least one url.
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I will put all the urls you find into the browse section for the week of
March 23.
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<b>Due date</b>: Monday, March 30
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