Richard Stallman at KTH
February 28, 2008
Tuesday evening I had the chance to be one among a crowd of students and other instances of varied species of computer enthusiasts to see Richard M Stallman in flesh and blood and listen to him. He gave a 2 hours speech at Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan (where I studied many years ago).
He had gathered quite a crowd:
And he got a hat:
And then he went on raving for 2 hours about why freedom is so crucial to the future of software. His talk was inspiring though not always easy to agree with. As a software developer I feel more receptive to the arguments raised to promote open-source (increasing code quality, avoiding key person dependency...) than to those promoting free code. But that's probably because I haven't been thinking much about the ethics of writing software.
He had gathered quite a crowd:
And he got a hat:
And then he went on raving for 2 hours about why freedom is so crucial to the future of software. His talk was inspiring though not always easy to agree with. As a software developer I feel more receptive to the arguments raised to promote open-source (increasing code quality, avoiding key person dependency...) than to those promoting free code. But that's probably because I haven't been thinking much about the ethics of writing software.
