TCASCV Seminar
February 28, 2003
The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman will speak about the purpose, goals, philosophy, methods, status, and future prospects of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernal Linux is now used by an estimated 17 to 20 million users world wide.
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's NOT Unix"), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them have lost. GNU is free doftware: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically GNU with Linux added as the kernel, is used on tens of millions of computers today. See www.gnu.org for more information about GNU and free software.