[AusNOG] Fwd: [SAGE-AU] Richard Stallman Speaking at RMIT

[Sean K. Finn]

It's easy to see why AusNOG Wins out..

We enjoy both Free Beer *AND* Free Speech.
(And lots of even free-er speech after lots of beers)

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Get in quick before all the good seats are gone!

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Vitaly Osipov
Sent: Saturday, 28 August 2010 12:50 PM
To: Andrew Fort; Shain Singh
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: [SAGE-AU] Richard Stallman Speaking at RMIT


Irrelevant or not, they are a significant part of the culture, at least for
those of us who have been around since before Google and Facebook :)

When you say his view are becoming irrelevant, do you mean the popular model
of "free" services that we pay for with our private and behavioural data
instead of money, often without realising it? Or what other reasons?

V.

P.S. The guy also makes a Sydney appearance in October at USNW (yes, for
university students).


On 28/08/10 11:44 AM, "Andrew Fort" <afort at choqolat.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Shain Singh <shain.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apologies for the cross-post, but I thought there would definitely be some
>> on this list that would be interested.
>> RMS is also speaking at Melbourne University
> 
> For those of you who'd rather not fall asleep or otherwise be
> intoxicated by Mr. Stallman's views, AusNOG is actually on at the same
> time.  One of these things is operational, one is... not like the
> other.
> 
> Despite his views becoming increasingly irrelevant (university
> students, please send your replies to /dev/null so I don't appear
> disingenuous), there is occasionally a sense of irony displayed:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pube5Aynsls
> 
> I'm sure the media player on his GNU/Linux system is GPL licensed, and
> the copyrighted material use is fair as irony is protected as free as
> in speech....
> 
> ;-)
> 
> -a
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