[kwlug-disc] RMS talk hosted by UW CSC tomorrow

[Jason Eckert]

Just got out of a meeting and saw this.
It makes me angry to hear that there was pressure to censor this academic
talk, and RMS has valid points in his explanation video as well.
I'll try to catch it in a week when he does it again.


On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 4:11 PM Mingde (Matthew) Zeng <matthewzmd at posteo.net>
wrote:

>
> A followup video explaining the cancellatoin from rms himself:
> https://live0.emacsconf.org/rms.webm
>
> Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> writes:
>
> > I don't know what the controversy was, but the website says the talk
> > was cancelled.
> >
> > - Chris
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 02:15:30PM -0500, Jason Eckert wrote:
> >> I followed the RMS controversy when it happened, and to be honest, I'm a
> >> little surprised UW asked him to present as a result given today's
> >> academic climate.
> >> However, I think it's incredibly important that students who are
> entering
> >> computer science hear RMS's views on free software, which is why I think
> >> they invited him to talk. Without his radical free software viewpoint,
> it's
> >> difficult to put the spectrum of open source licensing in perspective.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:28 AM <tomg at sentex.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Quoting Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>:
> >> >
> >> > > I am a little surprised by this, but oh well.
> >> >
> >> > RMS seems like a good guy to me.
> >> >
> >> > Tom
> >> >
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