Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!R20.UTEXAS.EDU!AI.KUIPERS From: AI.KUIPERS@R20.UTEXAS.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.ai Subject: Seminar - Why Software Cannot be Property (UTexas) Message-ID: <8702050723.AA01542@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 16:26:00 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8702050723.AA01542 Posted: Tue Feb 3 16:26:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 10:42:31 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 17 Approved: ailist@sri-stripe.arpa "Why Software Cannot Be Property" Richard Stallman Free Software Foundation Friday, February 6, TAY 3.128 tea at 10:30 am talk at 11:00 am Richard Stallman is the creator of the Emacs text editor, and of GNU, a freely distributed, complete software system to replace UNIX. He was one of the hackers at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and contributed in many ways to its excellent software environment, including major portions of the design and implementation of the MIT Lisp Machine software. The GNU project is inspired by his observations on the personal, societal, and technical problems that result from the commercialization of software.