Richard Stallman is coming to town

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom is giving talks in Malaysia this coming Friday (in Penang) and Saturday (in Kuala Lumpur).

He will talk about how software patents obstruct software development.

Event information:

Penang
Date: 26th August 2005
Time: 3pm - 5pm
Venue: School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Contact Person: Nur Hussein (hussein#cs.usm.my)

Kuala Lumpur
Date: 27th August 2005
Time: 2pm - 6pm
Venue: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya
Contact Person: Ditesh Kumar (ditesh#asix.com.my)

More info here (via).

2 Responses to “Richard Stallman is coming to town”


  1. 1 keem

    man. i quoted this guy in my thesis.

    looking forward to reading about the seminar from your blog?

    am in sarawak, can’t go =P am so not happy with my friends who’re studying in USM now.

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