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Richard M. Stallman is an American software freedom activist and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project’s lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he initiated the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation.

Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and he is the main author of several copyleft licenses including the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against both software patents and what he sees as excessive extension of copyright laws. Stallman has also developed a number of pieces of widely-used software, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, and the GNU Debugger. He co-founded the League for Programming Freedom in 1989.

Richard M. Stallman will have following speeches in Bosnia and Hercegovina in May, 2010:

What: Copyright vs. Community
When: May 19, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 01:30 PM
Where: IBU conference hall, main building, third floor, Francuske revolucije bb; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

What: Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
When: May 20, 2010 from 02:00 PM to 04:30 PM
Where: IBU conference hall, main building, third floor, Francuske revolucije bb; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

What: Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
When: May 22, 2010 from 14:00 PM to 16:00 PM
Where: Fakultet Informacijskih Tehnologija, Univerzitet Dzemal Bijedic; Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

We hope that you will come to listen speeches from Stallman and that you will enjoy those events. It is good opportunity to visit those events since we do not know when we will have Stallman in Bosnia and Hercegovina again. If there is additional information needed, please let me know.

1. Richard M. Stallman
2. Free Software Foundation