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Richard Stallman has revealed he is undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer of the white blood cells, but says that his prognosis is good.
The 70-year-old Stallman appeared at the GNU Project’s 40th anniversary celebration in Switzerland on Wednesday a very changed figure.
The GNU project is currently celebrating four decades of work on Free Software, as we wrote last week, and Stallman appeared on stage to make the closing speech in Biel/Bienne.
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In appropriate GNU style, the video is a WebP file on the GNU.org site, rather than being hosted on a commercial streaming service, and at any rate, the sound quality makes it difficult to follow.
We suggest downloading the file and playing it locally – VLC supports the format well – but we struggled to discern his words even so.
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Without his efforts to formalize and promote Free Software, there would be no Open Source world today.
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Richard Stallman has revealed he is undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer of the white blood cells, but says that his prognosis is good.
The 70-year-old Stallman appeared at the GNU Project’s 40th anniversary celebration in Switzerland on Wednesday a very changed figure.
The GNU project is currently celebrating four decades of work on Free Software, as we wrote last week, and Stallman appeared on stage to make the closing speech in Biel/Bienne.
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In appropriate GNU style, the video is a WebP file on the GNU.org site, rather than being hosted on a commercial streaming service, and at any rate, the sound quality makes it difficult to follow.
We suggest downloading the file and playing it locally – VLC supports the format well – but we struggled to discern his words even so.
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Without his efforts to formalize and promote Free Software, there would be no Open Source world today.
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