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

[CrankyOldBugger]

grrrr... I was looking forward to this.

I'm getting a little tired of people conveniently throwing away someone
else's life work because of a few alleged discrepancies...  RMS brought the
Open Source world to where it is today; he at least deserves credit for
that.


On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 15:29, Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:

> 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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