Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Simon Wistow
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:55:18PM -0600, Nigel Hamilton said: > In fact, employed properly copyright licences can help propagate > technology ... for example - the GPL itself. > > Why didn't he 'fess' up to this? ... I have no idea ... maybe it wouldn't > be controversial enough? ... but by the

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Nigel Hamilton
> A bunch of people asked a number of > questions which I can't possibly remember; however Nigel Hamilton managed to > get a name check for london.pm in when he asked his. Yay Nigel. > Unfortunately, I think he had misunderstood something, as RMS accused him of > having got completely the wrong end

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:01:12PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > Did anyone ask him "Am I free to make a DVD of your presentation?" > > I gave someone on #perl that task... it would put RMS in a double bind. Yeah, that was me. I didn't, I'm afraid... I liked him too much. -- rare aliment

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Earle" == Earle Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Earle> However, the first question he was asked seemed to perk him up, possibly Earle> because it got his brain going again. A bunch of people asked a number of Earle> questions which I can't possibly remember; Did anyone ask him "Am I fre

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 08:35:22PM +, Earle Martin wrote: > Next he explained the necessity for the GNU Free Documentation License, and > how it works, and discussed options for allowing reuse of copyrighted > materials. Missed something. At this point he described the necessity for a free enc

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:37:19PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Could you kindly post a summary to the list? I know I'm not the only one > who was interested but didn't snag a seat in time. I'll be at the other > one too (possibly) with mstevens. Cool. OK. The audience for today's lecture was a

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 01:00:32PM +, Earle Martin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:10:22AM +, Ben wrote: > > > I'm going to both; anyone else? Pub beforehand perhaps? > > > > I've got tickets for the Tuesday one. I'd be up for meeting beforehand, and > > certainly pub after. > > I'll

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-12-02 Thread Earle Martin
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:10:22AM +, Ben wrote: > > I'm going to both; anyone else? Pub beforehand perhaps? > > I've got tickets for the Tuesday one. I'd be up for meeting beforehand, and > certainly pub after. I'll be at the venue for today's one at 4pm, if anyone else is going and want to

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-11-25 Thread Ben
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:00:33PM +, Earle Martin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:10:28PM -, B. N. Moran wrote: > > People might like to know that Richard Stallman will be speaking at the > > London School of Economics on 2nd and 3rd of December. > > I'm going to both; anyone else? Pu

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-11-22 Thread Earle Martin
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:10:28PM -, B. N. Moran wrote: > People might like to know that Richard Stallman will be speaking at the > London School of Economics on 2nd and 3rd of December. I'm going to both; anyone else? Pub beforehand perhaps? -- latin reamer

Re: RMS seminars in London

2002-11-21 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 12:10, B.N.Moran wrote: > People might like to know that Richard Stallman will be speaking at the > London School of Economics on 2nd and 3rd of December. > > Monday 2 December 4.30p.m.-6.30p.m. > COPYRIGHT VS COMMUNITY IN THE AGE OF THE COMPUTER NETWORKS > > Tuesday 3 Dec

RMS seminars in London

2002-11-21 Thread B . N . Moran
People might like to know that Richard Stallman will be speaking at the London School of Economics on 2nd and 3rd of December. Monday 2 December 4.30p.m.-6.30p.m. COPYRIGHT VS COMMUNITY IN THE AGE OF THE COMPUTER NETWORKS Tuesday 3 December 6.30p.m-8.30p.m. AGAINST SOFTWARE PATENTS It's open