Free Software vs malware and the need for reverse engineering
| When |
Jun 16, 2026
from 04:00 PM to 06:00 PM |
|---|---|
| Where | School of Engineering of FAU, Felix-Klein-Gebaude, 1. OG Cauerstr. 11 91058 Erlangen Room: H11 (01.210) |
Disclaimer: this event is not organized by the FSF.
Richard Stallman will speak on the moral issues of free vs nonfree software, why your freedom demands freeing yourself from nonfree software, and how reverse engineering is crucial for freeing our computers.
Event will be held in English with around an hour of presentation followed by an hour of Q&A.
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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