Peter T. Brown

Biography

Peter T. Brown is the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as of December 2005. He has worked for the FSF since 2001; he started as a controller and was promoted to his current position in 2005 after the departure of Bradley Kuhn. Originally from England, he has worked in the past for the BBC and the New Internationalist.

Talk

Peter talked about free software and the upcoming third version of the General Public License (GPLv3). The talk took place on Saturday, April 7th, 2007 at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Peter also participated in the Is FLOSS Suited for the Professional Environment? panel discussion.

Media

• Free Software and the GPLv3 Google Video
• Free Software and the GPLv3 Presentation Slides (ODP - 3.1 MiB)^†
• Is FLOSS Suited for the Professional Environment? Google Video
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  Larry Garfield, Peter T. Brown, Angela Byron and Chris DiBona at Flourish

^† - ODP files can be viewed with the free and open source OpenDocument Viewer or the OpenOffice.org Office Suite. Downloads are available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.