Freie/libre/libero/liber software, for sovereignty and freedom

Disclaimer: this event is not organized by the FSF.

Free software enables all kinds of users to use computers in freedom, escaping the abusive power that nonfree software's owners exercise over its users.

Today's nonfree software for individuals to use is full of functionalities designed to surveil, capture, restrict, control, exploit and harm those who use it. But all kinds of users can fall victim to this, even governments. Users must reject software that puts them under the power of any specific owner, and insist on the software that users control: free/libre software.

Language: English

Time: 12:00 presentation 13:00 questions 13:25 auction 13:30 more questions

As usual, the event will have around an hour of presentation followed by around an hour of Q&A.

We suggest you bring cash.

The time listed on this event page is in local time (CET).

Speaker bio

Dr. Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and initiated development of the GNU operating system (see https://gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, with or without changes. The GNU/Linux system (the GNU operating system with Linux as the kernel) is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award and the ACM Software and Systems Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, and the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as many doctorates honoris causa, and has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

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