[LUNI] Richard Stallman and Chicago G/LUG Meeting

[John Quigley]

Olga Sayenko wrote:
> But I wish he talked more about emacs and his work as a programmer. 

I think that's a shared sentiment amongst many of us.  I'm particularly 
interested in hearing about his contributions to AI (namely, 
dependency-directed backtracking), as well as his work in duplicating 
the Symbolics Lisp machine.

Since the IIT crowd was a rather technical one, I made several indirect 
requests that he give us some historical and technical insight.  In 
transit to the talk, I broached the subject outright, asking if he could 
talk about his development work.

His basic feelings were that his work in this realm is incidental and 
unimportant; he feels his conveyance of the FSF/GNU principals is far 
more critical, and he views talking about deeply technical issues to be 
a waste of the listeners time.  I disagree, but, oh well.

In any event, it was a streamlined, interesting talk, and thanks to 
everyone who made it out.  We'll have an audio recording and images of 
the event up on the Chicago G/LUG website in the next few days.

- John Quigley