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'Free software' proponent to speak at UB
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| Well-known computer programmer Richard
| Stallman will visit the University at
| Buffalo Monday evening to discuss copyright
| laws in the age of the Internet.
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http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2010/02/22/daily7.html
Richard Stallman, President of Free Software Foundation Presents: Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks
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| Who: Richard Stallman launched the
| development of the GNU operating systems in
| 1984. GNU is free software where everyone
| has the freedom to copy it and redistribute
| it, as well as to make changes either large
| or small. The GNU/Linux system is used on
| tens of millions of computers today.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/Kitware_RPI/Richard_Stallman_seminar/prweb3640474.htm
The downside of hiking out-of-state tuition
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| Richard Stallman must have a crystal ball
| underneath his bed. When it comes to the
| world of computing, he's seen the future so
| many times that one of his ideas would be
| enough on which to base a career.
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| Way back in the Texas Instruments' "Hunt
| the Wumpus" days of computers (the early
| 1980s for those of you too young or too old
| to remember the early computer game),
| Stallman envisioned the GNU operating
| system.
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| A variant, the GNU/Linux operating system,
| is now used in hundreds of millions of
| computers worldwide. His announcement of
| that system in 1983 sparked the free
| software movement.
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| Now you'll have two opportunities to hear
| him talk about "Copyright vs. Community in
| the Age of Computer Networks." Stallman
| will speak at 4 p.m. today at Union
| College's Olin Auditorium. He's at the
| University at Albany at 4 p.m. Friday in
| the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts
| Center on the uptown campus.
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http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=904374&category=SCHENECTADY
Free software, free society
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| Richard Stallman spoke to an eager crowd of
| UB students Monday night, bringing to them
| his message about free software and
| explaining what he feels are the evils of
| copyright law.
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| Stallman is well known for his position as
| the founder of the GNU Project and the Free
| Software Foundation. He is a long-term
| activist for free software and advocates
| against corporations who, he believes,
| stretch the copyright laws and software
| patents. He presented in Norton Hall on
| Monday about his first passion â free
| software.
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http://www.ubspectrum.com/article/41394
Stallman and Free Software Foundation launch Day Against DRM
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| DRM is a technology used with digital files
| that are copyrighted to ensure than can not
| be copied to other devices.
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| Richard Stallman said the day was designed
| to "raise public awareness to the danger of
| technology that restricts users' access to
| movies, music, literature and software;
| indeed, all forms of digital data".
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/legislation/news/index.cfm?newsid=19060
Recent:
iTunes sales 'collapsing'
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| The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has
| experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to
| analyst company Forrester Research.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/11/digital_downloads_flatline/
Related:
Yahoo sells DRM-free Jesse McCartney album
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| Most music download services use their own form of DRM protection on
| their downloads, often to limit the variety of devices that can play
| the songs; songs and other media content purchased from Apple Computer's
| iTunes Store, for example, can be played only on Apple's iPod music
| players. DRM-free downloads, however, have begun to be popular withsome
| artists, including the Barenaked Ladies, a Canadian pop rock group that
| sells its downloadable albums through its own Web site.
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http://news.com.com/2110-1027_3-6117163.html
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