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DATE | 2003-11-02 |
FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] [rms@gnu.org: My speech]
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----- Forwarded message from Richard Stallman -----
From: Richard Stallman To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com Subject: My speech Reply-to: rms-at-gnu.org Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 19:08:16 -0500
Is there any reason it is important for my speech to be on Nov 22? Could it be Nov 23 instead? I would like to be able to travel on Nov 22, so I can go to a Gamelan performance here on Nov 21. Musicians from Bali are on tour.
The speech needs a title, so how about this:
The Free Software Movement and the Challenges it Faces Today
And how about this abstract:
The free software movement was launched 20 years ago when we undertook to develop a free software operating system, GNU.
Seven years ago, the free software community faced a danger created unknowingly by the KDE desktop project. KDE was free software itself, and attractive to users, but could not run on a free platform: it depended on the non-free Qt library. GNOME was founded specifically to solve that problem by providing an unencumbered replacement for KDE.
That particular problem disappeared when Qt became free software, but other similar dangers exist today -- as well as many other kinds of dangers. Our community today faces a wide range of threats, that we must confront and overcome if we are to realize the goal of fully utilizing our computers without losing our freedom.
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