Richard M Stallman the father of the Free software revolution was Live in Bengaluru on 13th Dec and I am proud to say that I was there!
After much scepticism about visiting the event, and my eagerness to see RMS hooked on to his laptop ,I was able to finally go to the event, all thanks to my luck that my labs got over on 12th dec.I was also able to meet some of my Foss enthusiast friends there.
It was an inspirational, motivating talk just for anybody and everybody.Apart from speaking about the free software revolution and the GNU project, Mr RMS who is considered rude some times but logical all the times told why Linux is not just Linux and why it should be called GNU/Linux and why Linus Torovalds and his team alone didn't deserve all the credit. This part was amazing. As a Linux user myself for many years now, even I was not aware of the fact that I should be calling it GNU/Linux.
Then he spoke about how DRM is like digital handcuffs and a threat to our "Freedom",while also trying to make the talk very humorous with his stereotypes, jokes etc.
Then came the real reason why he was here, to release the his book " Free software , free society : selected essays of Richard M Stallman" which has been translated to kannada as
ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಸಮಾಜಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ :ಆರ್ ಎಮ್ ಎಸ್ ರವರ ಆಯ್ದ ಪ್ರಬಂಧಗಳು.
I request anybody who is interested in FSF to please help translate this document to Kannada.
And then came the much awaited moment, the photo session! Although the disastrous moment was that when I discovered that I hadn't took my camera :( but then managed to fall in the eyes of the shutter bugs. Though I dont have any of the photos with me now, I would soon be updating it here. And oh, I almost forgot- Happy Hacking!
