UC college welcomes a Legend

Richard M Stallman,the founder of free software movement,hacker,philosopher and software developer. He started GNU project to make a UNIX like operating system. He was at UC college to deliver a speech on FREE SOFTWARE IN ETHICS AND PRACTICE. Ten of us got the rarest of the rarest chance to listen to his speech and to talk with him. The plan was made in an hour and we took off. Though we missed fifteen minutes of the talk, the rest two and a half hours talk raised all of us to a better level.
The information about his arrival was given by Pramode sir. It was really an amazing speech. He deliberately talked about the draw backs of proprietary softwares and more about the advantages of free software. He pointed out the usage of LINUX by we people and told us to use GNU/LINUX because, the idea and the first layout was proposed by them and Linus came to the field years after that.(I felt like a little bit of ego probs) He too mentioned the wrong usage as open source for free software.
He fired Microsoft Corporation for its copyright against piracy. He said that helping your neighbor or friend by just giving him a copy of a software which you've in your hand cannot be named as piracy-a word used for robbery in the deep sea. I too felt it's not fare to give the name of pirate for just copying a software. The speech helped me to understand more about the philosophy of free software(I think).
He beautifully placed bits of humor through out his speech. In the midst of his speech he dressed like a priest just wearing a gown and a hat and imitated like a god. "I'm saint Ignusious, the proposer of Emacs, i bless your computer".Though it was funny, that made us think...I felt like a mono act.


I was surprised to hear that such a world famous personality has no personal belongings including his laptop!. He was so simple in dressing. He just had a plastic bag and cover with him for such a long journey!
After his speech we got a chance to go near him and talk to him. We invited him to our college, but he politely refused and offered us a video conferencing with pleasure. He gave Devidas his visiting card!! I were as if in a dream, a world famous man is sitting in front of us!!
We reached back here at seven in the evening. Myself and Devidas went to meet Pramode sir, to thank him and we were eagerly waiting to tell him about our experience. Sir too was happy and we 'd a discussion for half an hour. And I swear I wont miss any opportunities like this.
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