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Maddog and Stallman at the GNU/Linux Summit
PRESS RELEASE 9.2.2004 MADDOG AND STALLMAN TO THE GNU/LINUX SUMMIT This year's GNU/Linux Summit presents top speakers. Linux gurus Jon "Maddog" Hall and Richard Stallman will both speak at the Summit. Maddog has been The Executive Director of Linux International since 1995, the first years as a volunteer. Linux International is a non-profit organization distributes information about Linux, and how it will benefit business and personal users. They also reserve places at major computer expos, and accept donations to distribute to programmers who test out applications. Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project. GNU -project was launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system, GNU. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes. There are estimated to be some 20 million users of GNU/Linux systems today. Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU Compiler Collection. GNU Compiler Collection is a portable optimizing compiler, which was designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages. Stallman also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. Stallman currently serves as president of the Free Software Foundation. Impressive speaker list - This is the first time when Maddog and Stallman are seen in the same seminar. The event is unique and thus worth wile to take advantage of, says SOT's President Santeri Kannisto. SOT assists with the Summit's speaker arrangements. The seminar it self is arranged this year and in the future by Finnish Chamber of Commerce. SOT has arranged an impressive list of speakers to the Summit. In addition to Maddog and Stallman e.g. Match Wichmann, David Sugar from the GNU Project, member of EU Parliament Piia-Noora Kauppi and several other representatives of companies and public administration, which exploit open source code systems, are speaking at the Summit. GNU/Linux Summit is international Linux event, which offers information and knowledge about possibilities of Linux, open source code software and freeware. Summit is held at the Finlandia house 26.-27.2.2004.Additional information and registration www.linuxsummit.org Additional information: GNU/Linux Summit: http://www.linuxsummit.org/ Junior Chamber Finland: http://www.jcfin.fi/ GNU/Linux Summit Communications Nana Salomaa email: nana.salomaa@avainlippu.fi Tel: +358 400 942052 (Log in to post comments)
Maddog and Stallman at the GNU/Linux Summit Posted Feb 9, 2004 21:57 UTC (Mon) by armijn (guest, #3653) [Link] First time that Maddog and RMS are speaking at one event? Hmm, maybe this year then :)I remember that both gentlemen were at FOSDEM last year...
Stallman a Linux Guru? Posted Feb 10, 2004 8:07 UTC (Tue) by jorvalho (guest, #2623) [Link] " Linux gurus Jon "Maddog" Hall and Richard Stallman will..."I don't think Stallman is going to like to be called a linux guru. I think hacker would be more like it.
Stallman a Linux Guru? Posted Feb 10, 2004 9:21 UTC (Tue) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link] > I don't think Stallman is going to like to be called a linux guru.Of cause, that should be GNU/Linux guru!
Stallman a Linux Guru? Posted Feb 10, 2004 20:24 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Not even that; RMS has not been involved with the Linux kernel in any way (other than as the author of the GPL), and he says that Linux is only the name of the kernel.
Stallman a Linux Guru? Posted Feb 10, 2004 21:54 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (subscriber, #7544) [Link] That's your second "Richard isn't so great" comment in this week, did Richard kick your dog recently or what? :-)Everyone knows that RMS isn't an author of Linux-the-kernel, but he is a guru of "the OS known as GNU/Linux".
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