[kwlug-disc] RMS talk hosted by UW CSC tomorrow

[Mingde (Matthew) Zeng]

A followup video explaining the cancellatoin from rms himself: https://live0.emacsconf.org/rms.webm

Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> writes:

> I don't know what the controversy was, but the website says the talk
> was cancelled.
>
> - Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 02:15:30PM -0500, Jason Eckert wrote:
>> I followed the RMS controversy when it happened, and to be honest, I'm a
>> little surprised UW asked him to present as a result given today's
>> academic climate.
>> However, I think it's incredibly important that students who are entering
>> computer science hear RMS's views on free software, which is why I think
>> they invited him to talk. Without his radical free software viewpoint, it's
>> difficult to put the spectrum of open source licensing in perspective.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:28 AM <tomg at sentex.ca> wrote:
>>
>> > Quoting Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>:
>> >
>> > > I am a little surprised by this, but oh well.
>> >
>> > RMS seems like a good guy to me.
>> >
>> > Tom
>> >
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