Sam Wilson's Journal » Richard Stallman http://samwilson.id.au A car-free web database geek, recording this and that in the digital memex, mapping and walking in Fremantle, striving for a bit of simplicity, and now and then building bits of wooden furniture by hand. Tue, 28 May 2013 01:12:11 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Richard Stallman http://samwilson.id.au/2010/10/19/rms/ http://samwilson.id.au/2010/10/19/rms/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:32:05 +0000 Sam Wilson http://samwilson.id.au/?p=566 A big audience this evening for Richard Stallman at the Hyatt in Perth: a sharp divide between the suits and the t-shirts. RMS does not seem to quite gel with the ACS! In fact, David Clarke, in introducing him, said that he had no idea that the talk would be of interest to so many people.

I came away this evening encouraged about Free software, and inspired to continue to care about the issues involved — but also rather disheartened at the conservatism of the ICT sector (although it might just be Perth; it certainly wasn’t so strong in the Canberra ACS). I sat next to a chap who didn’t even want to clap at the end.

One last note: I love RMS’s rebuttal to so many questions put to him tonight: “I don’t know what you mean by that; that doesn’t even make any sense!”

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