Event 9. April 2001: Free Software and Opensource Software

The IT Support Group at D-ELEK and Swiss Open Systems User Group proudly presented:

Richard Stallman explanes the difference between Free Software and OpenSource Software

Our guest-speaker Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation) talked about:

Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for "GNU's Not Unix'').
He is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages.
Stallman also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs.

The winners

of the First Swiss Opensource Competition were announced during the event and their projects were presented.

1. Prize:   Andreas Müller for "Failover"
2. Prize:   Kay Römer for "MICO"
3. Prize:   Andrew Mustun for "Qcad"

Other contributions

• Andrew Mustun: ManStyle, Trophy.
• Andreas Müller: mod_authz_ldap.
• Peter Stevens: SFI Director.
• Christian Jaeger: Eile.
• Olivier Müller: oDns, oMail.

The competition was organized by the IT Support Group of the Departement of Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich together with the Swiss Open System User Group, /ch/open.
Report of Tobias Oetiker
Report of "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" (Report can be found with the string "Freie Software im Wettbewerb /Preisverleihung an der ETH Zürich"; reading with costs)

The Event was sponsored by AdNovum Informatik AG, Boll Engineering AG, SFI Technology Services and Sun Microsystems Switzerland.