Richard Stallman, Yale, Ninjas and Our Freedom

Yale welcomed Richard Stallman (rms) to a debate on "Digital Restrictions Managment Should be Illegal" where it was resolved that DRM should be illegal. Defying RL protocol, rms wore a tee-shirt, jeans, and bare feet instead of the mandated suit and tie and presumably some type of foot covering.

Stallman, who launched the GNU Project and started the free software movement in the 1980s, is a brilliant thinker about how human creativity works and his discussion of the harm of DRM is well-worth studying.  You can read the minutes of the debate at http://www.yale.edu/ypu/current/ypu10172007.doc

Stallman also "starred" in Revolution OS, a great movie about freedom and creativity which incidently is about software, was "attacked by ninjas" as he spoke in an homage to the cartoon  from xkcd.com