RMS is coming to the midwest.
-- Benjamin Story ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows 95: n. a 32 bit patch to a 16 bit hack to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. Windows 98: n. see Windows 95 Windows ME: n. see Windows 95 Windows 2000: n. an attempt by a 2 bit company to put forth a stable version of a 32 bit patch to a 16 bit hack to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microporcessor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by illinek.dnsalias.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF250410E for <bstory@localhost>; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:39:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.hansoninfosys.com [209.144.36.4] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for bstory@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:39:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from web1.lanscape.net (web1.lanscape.net [64.240.156.194]) by rover.hansoninfosys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9MGeVe11384 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:40:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from luci.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by web1.lanscape.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA07712 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:40:30 -0500 Received: from localhost (kara@localhost) by web1.lanscape.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07679 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:40:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:40:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Kara Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-X-Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LUNI] ANN: Richard Stallman, Oct 31, The Free Software Movement & GNU/Linux (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: Linux Users of Central Illinois Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: p:X!!DY\!!J@m!!HSn"! Looks like RMS is coming to Chicago, if you're interested. -Kara To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Announce)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [LUNI] ANN: Richard Stallman, Oct 31, The Free Software Movement & GNU/Linux > THE FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT & GNU/LINUX > Wednesday, October 31 4:30 PM > Max Palevsky Theater > The University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall > 1212 East 59th Street in Hyde Park > >Richard Stallman, will speak about the purpose, goals, philosophy, >methods, status, and future prospects of the GNU operating system, >which in combination with the Linux kernel is now used by an >estimated 17 to 20 million users world wide. > >Sponsored by The University of Chicago Computer Science Department, >the Computation Institute, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, >and the Student ACM Chapter. >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Richard Stallman graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. >During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT >Artificial Intelligence Lab. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to >start the GNU Project, an endeavor to develop a free operating system. > >Mr. Stallman is also the principal author of the GNU C Compiler (GCC) >a compiler which 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. >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >See http://masters.cs.uchicago.edu/forum/ ______________________________________________________________________ Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Announcements Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni-announce ______________________________________________________________________ - To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe luci-discuss" in the body.