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Contents: NEWS: Book release in Hyderabad (forwarded) (Frederick Noronha)
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From: Frederick Noronha fred@bytesforall.org Subject: NEWS: Book release in Hyderabad (forwarded) Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:25:49 CST
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:10:24 +0530 From: "Dr. Atul Negi" atulcs@uohyd.ernet.in Subject: Towards Free Software A book Release
No Sir, No Monopoly Free Software: A Perspective ---Richard Stallman A book Published by Prajasakti Book House
Date Friday 20-12-02 Venue Sundarayya Vignana Kendram Bagh Lingam Palli Hyderabad.
Time 6-00pm
Presided by Ashhar Fahran IETF Free Software Developer.
Inauguration by J A Chowdary President Managing Director for Indian Operations Portal Player
Guest Speaker Dr. Atul Negi, Student Activities Chair IEEE Hyderabad Section Reader, ( Associate Professor) Dept of Computer and Information Sciences University of Hyderabad
This book is a collection of writings by Richard Stallman, espousing the cause of free software, its philosophy and perspective. The book explains the basic ideas of Free Software Movement, and the GNU operating system that was developed so that people could use computers in freedom. The struggle against imperialist globalization is waged on several fronts. As the present age is called computer age this struggle for free software assumes all the more significance.
Not only the people in general but even many computer professionals themselves may not be aware of the strangle hold of Multinationals, Microsoft in particular. Stallman in these articles lucidly explains the paradoxes and perplexities of the issue.
While most of the software licenses take away the right to copy, study, distribute and modify the software. The software developed by the free software programmers is also distributed in the original 'source' form. That means, any programmer can study, enhance and change the software for their purpose without having to pay any royalty to anybody. A developing country like India needs to constantly strive for cost effective solutions.
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU. He is the principle author of the GCC designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages which now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages. Stallman also wrote the symbolic Debugger(GDB), GNU emacs, and various other GNU programs.
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