On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 07:23:07PM -0700, Robert Echlin wrote: > Can we invite RMS to the OCLUG meeting after his talk, instead? I doubt he'll come to talk unless we rename our club to OCGLUG... To understand the source of my cynicism, search the archives for OCGLUG... I've seen him speak twice, which was once too many times... > Or we could meet at the bar with him? > <grin> > > Rob > (second try... to send this - rme) > > ________________________________ > From: Andrew Clunis <andrew [ at ] orospakr [ dot ] ca> > To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:45:30 PM > Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Richard Stallman on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, 16:30 Tuesday 2 June 2009 > > rms is giving a talk on parliament hill, this Tuesday! > > (La version française suit) > > Richard Stallman on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, 16:30 Tuesday 2 June 2009 > > Topic: The State's Freedom, and the People's Freedom, as Users of Software. > > Date of event: 2 June 2009 > Time of event: 16:30 - 18:00 pm on Parliament Hill (main steps) > > Followed by informal discussion at the "Parliament Pub" Family > Restaurant across the street, beginning at approximately 18:00. > > Summary: > > The Government of Canada is the largest software user in Canada. In > most cases, it gives developers of the programs intolerable power over > how the state uses public assets and how the state manages its own data; > in effect, giving these developers (most of whom work for large > corporations, most of which are foreign) power over the state's own > computers, in all their forms. Free/Libre software licensing is the way > out of this bind. It gives the users control over their own computing, > whether these users are government departments, companies or individuals. > > The Government of Canada is also the largest funder of custom software > development in Canada. It is the largest employer of software > developers, and the organization with the largest number of software > developers under contract. Canadian legislators should ensure that the > software paid for by the public is available for the public to use in > freedom, by releasing it as Free/Libre software. > > Richard Stallman will explain these issues, as well as why the term > "intellectual property" is an incoherent overgeneralization that should > be completely shunned. > > The Founder of the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman, is > stopping in Ottawa for meetings with government and non-governmental > officials. He is enroute back to MIT after receiving an honorary degree > from Lakehead University, Thunder Bay. > Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman > > -- Regards, > Andrew Clunis slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________