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

[Mingde (Matthew) Zeng]

This is very unfortunate. I really look forward to this as well.

CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

+1 to this.


>
> 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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Mingde (Matthew) Zeng