How I stopped worrying and love the fork bomb.

Submitted Mar 6, 2020

The ageless romantic-comedy of the inanimate text in specific order when transformed into electric signals help us recieve, store, interpret, process and create information, it’s creators, it’s users and their freedom.
Starring:

Guy Fawkes
Alan Turing
Dennis Ritchie
Richard Mathew Stallman
Linus Torvalds
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Yours truely.

Outline

This talk will explain why a lot of things are the way they are in the Free software world. It intends to analyse the past to get a feel for the future.This talk aims to help people (geeks,nerds and common folk alike) connect to the Frees Software Movement and value their freedom and privacy.

The Talk begins with Guyfawkes and his act of terrorism.
Moves to the tragedy of Alan Turing, The Enigma and Christopher.
Transitions into the Hacker Culture, Unix and the under-rated genius behind it- Dennis Ritchie.
Pushes foreward into the wierd new printer at MIT and it’s implications.(This is where RMS enters).
The Gnu and The Penguin.
Wizards Of Silicon Valley.
Apache and rise of GNU/Linux.
Free Software Sucks.
Free Software Rocks.
My introduction to FOSS and being a Debian Maintainer.
Why the movement is as relevant as it was all those Years ago.

Requirements

Open-Mind.
Curiosity.
A Heart.
Projector, VGA/HDMI Cable.

Speaker bio

Free/Libre Software Enthusiast. Privacy Advocate. “Treat people as you expect to be treated” Advocate. Debian Contributor. Mozillian. Vector Designer.

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