The Columbia University chapter of the ACM is very excited to announce that we are sponsoring a talk by Richard M. Stallman on Monday, April 3. If by some unbelievable twist of fate you have never heard of him, Richard is the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project. Without him, the Linux kernel would probably not exist. Richard is also the principal author of gcc, gdb, emacs, and the GNU General Public License. The talk is entitled Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks.
Admission is free, and all are invited.
The talk begins at 7 p.m. and is expected to last between 60 and 90 minutes. It takes place in 301 Pupin , on the Columbia University campus. To get to campus by car, go to the corner of 116th Street and either Broadway or Amsterdam. You'll come in on the fifth floor. This way we can look through our logs, do some work with grep, awk, sort, uniq, and wc, and get an approximation.