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Honorary Degree Recipients
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| Richard Stallman
| Free Software Advocate
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| Richard Stallman is internationally recognised as a leader in the free
| software movement, which argues that everyone should be free to run, share,
| study, and modify software. To understand the concept of free software,
| Richard says, “You should think of free as in free speech, not as in free
| beer.”
|
| Born in New York City in 1953, Richard Stallman graduated from Harvard with a
| BA in Physics in 1974 (one year before Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to
| create Microsoft). While studying at Harvard, Richard also worked as a staff
| hacker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Artificial Intelligence
| Lab, where he learned how to develop operating systems. After graduating, he
| continued working at MIT until 1984, when he left to start the GNU
| (pronounced guh-NEW) Project.
|
| [...]
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http://agora.lakeheadu.ca/agora.php?st=327
Recent:
RMS and His Magic Bread
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| Imagine that you are in a world where people are starving. Imagine you have
| some bread, and you were confronted with starving people: most would feel a
| compulsion to share that bread. But imagine now that you had RMS's special
| kind of bread that could be eaten once or a million times: how much greater
| would the duty to share that bread with the hungry be? And how much more
| despicable would the person who refused to share that bread be?
|
| Translate this now to the realm of ideas. We are surrounded by people hungry
| for knowledge, and we do possess that magic bread - digital copies of
| knowledge that can be shared infinitely without diminishing it. Do we not
| have a similar moral duty to share that magic bread of digital knowledge with
| all those that hunger for it?
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/rms-and-his-magic-bread.html
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