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Re: VAC - Virtual ACS Canberra - upcoming Australian Computer Society and some other IT meetings in Canberra, Australia

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From: Michael Lightfoot
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:00
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On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 23:09:14 GMT, Andrew Freeman wrote:

>VAC - Virtual ACS Canberra - upcoming Australian Computer Society
>(ACS) and some other IT meetings in Canberra, Australia
>
[ verbosity deleted ]

>****** ACS CANBERRA BRANCH SPECIAL MEETING
>FEATURING RICHARD STALLMAN -
>FOUNDER, FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION ******
>
>Date:    Monday, May 3, 1999
>Time:    6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
>Venue:   Computer Science & IT Building (Building 108),
>         Room N101, North Road, ANU campus
>Speaker: Richard Stallman
>
>The ACS Canberra Branch is fortunate to be able to host a talk by
>Richard Stallman (usually called RMS).  HeΒ’s the founder of the Free
>Software Foundation and the GNU project, the author of Emacs, the GNU
>C Compiler and other widely used and important programs.  Linux, as it
>widely distributed, includes many GNU programs.
>
Have another, careful look at what RMS has "authored".

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>
>This meeting is free for ACS members to attend. The fee for
>non-members to attend is $20.
>
In the spirit of the FSF, shouldn't this talk be free to all unless we
wish to publish something derived from it, in which case we are obliged
to publish a transcript of the entire meeting?

>:-)

[more verbosity deleted]

Why is it that you are the only person I know capable of creating a
newsposting approximating the size of those in the binary groups, yet
containing very little original content?  Have you considered simply
including a URL to an appropriate web page?  Didn't think so.



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From: "Michael Lightfoot" <michael-burp@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: VAC - Virtual ACS Canberra - upcoming Australian Computer Society and some other IT meetings in Canberra, Australia
Date: 1999/04/18
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