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Date: Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:25 PM<br>Subject: Richard Stallman Talk in Haifa -- please pass the word.<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Richard Stallman [mailto:<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org" target="_blank">rms@gnu.org</a>]<br>Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 6:18 PM<br>Subject: Talk in Haifa -- please pass the word.<br>
<br>My speech will take place at Baladna Youth Club on Thrusday 21st July<br>at 5pm. Here's the announcement. Could you please spread the word?<br><br><br>Copyright versus Community<br>in the Age of the Computer Networks.<br>
<br> Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was<br>designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the<br>printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with<br>computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. The<br>
global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for<br>draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while<br>suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to<br>serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright--to promote progress,<br>
for the benefit of the public--then we must make changes in the other<br>direction.<br><br>What: A talk by Richard Stallman sponsored by the Youth Group for BDS (Boycott, Divestment and<br>Sanctions)<br><br>Where: the Baladna Youth Club, Zion Street 3-A<br>
When: July 21st at 5pm (sharp).<br><br><br><br>Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 and<br>started the development of the GNU operating system (see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a><br>
<<a href="http://www.gnu.org/#_blank" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/#_blank</a>> ) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone<br>has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make<br>changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU<br>
operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of<br>computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a<br>MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's<br>Pioneer Award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic<br>
Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The organizers of the event would like it to be known that they are in<br>full support of the rights of Palestinians. In particular, the<br>organizers support the call for boycott of complicit Israeli<br>
institutions. Richard Stallman is following the boycott during this<br>trip out of respect for the Palestinian hosts who invited him to the<br>region.<br><br><br>--<br>Dr Richard Stallman<br>President, Free Software Foundation<br>
51 Franklin St<br>Boston MA 02110<br>USA<br><a href="http://www.fsf.org/" target="_blank">www.fsf.org</a> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/" target="_blank">www.gnu.org</a><br>Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.<br>
Use free telephony <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/" target="_blank">http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/</a><br></div><br></div>
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