Honorary Committee

IT Giants Conference
in Kraków

January 14, 2009

For all the fans and enthusiasts of FREE SOFTWARE
as well as for students and specialists of IT and related disciplines

 

 

Guest Star: Richard Stallman

Special Guest: Waldemar Pawlak

 

Conference Theme:

Free Software for Free Thinkers

 

Wolne oprogramowanie dla ludzi kochających Wolność

 

 

 

 

Special Guest:

Waldemar Pawlak

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy
supporter of new IT and Internet technologies as well as of FREE SOFTWARE

 

 

Guest Star:

Richard Stallman

 

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms", is an American software freedom activist, hacker (programmer) and software developer. 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 started the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation. Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft and 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.(Wikipedia)

 

 

Free software for Free Thinkers

Wolne oprogramowanie dla ludzi kochających Wolność