So, without further ado, may I introduce the night speaker? Please raise your hands if you cannot hear me. I see if I get left or from all around the room that I know the system is working. I'm pleased to welcome Richard Spoulin as our speaker. Richard or RMS is a well-known activist, free software developer and founder of the free software foundation. He is the author of E-Mats, leading contributor to the new project and software development for the great level. And he did something with the new general public license. He is a passionate advocate about free software and I'm sure that will come through in his talk. We are pleased to post them. One procedural note I will not. But today he's not going to talk about GNU or free software in general, but about a subject that might turn out to be one of the greatest threats to free software. Not just free software. No, no, no, no, no, please let me do this. Okay. You're getting it wrong. So I will follow his suggestion and I'm really curious and interested and I'm really looking forward to what Richard will tell us now. So which of please? Rob is particularly interested in intellectual property law and is also interested in... ...in exploring a potential career in litigation. Congratulations. Thank you. Free software foundation is responsible for managing and maintaining the new suite of corporate tools and products. Nice and clean. You know how the suite is software. It is new to hardware links. Richard, I don't think requires any introduction to this audience, but I will say he's almost certainly the father of the modern open source movement. No, absolutely not. If I'm the father of open source it was done by artificial insemination with stolen sperm. I have not a supporter of open source. I do not agree with the basic values of open source. I do not try to participate in open source activities and when anyone refers to my work with that term I take offense. You really shouldn't have done that. Apologies. You should have known better. And I do. And it is the... I think that's actually a point that I would like you to speak on it at some length, but... Certainly you are the father of the modern open source. Most people think they are very familiar with my work and what they think my work is is something I don't even agree with. Completely wrong. I have not found the free software movement, a movement for computer users freedom, freedom to control your own computing and freedom to cooperate with other people. These are freedoms I believe every computer user is entitled to. That must never be taken away. They should be inalienable rights for the user of software. That is the idea of the free software movement. Non-free software, proprietary software, keeps users divided and helpless, divided because they are forbidden to share with anyone else, and helpless because they don't have the source code so they can't control what the software does. And in fact they are at the mercy of the developer who does control it. So a non-free program functions as an instrument of the power of its developer, power over the users. This is an unjust social system that I wish to wipe out from the world. That is the aim of the free software movement. In order for every user to have freedom, that means there must be no freedom denying software. So we define