Richard Stallman visited Beijing in September, 2005

by Bill Xu

Richard Stallman visited China in September 2005, these are some photos that I took when he was in Beijing. SINA's CTO, Li Songbo, invited Richard and Hong Feng to visit SINA.COM at September 16, 2005. Richard Stallman gave a wonderful lecture about free software and the practice in the CS education, the main fruit is Hong Feng's Hacker Training Program(HTP).

We were in Li Songbo(SINA CTO)'s office. There we had a nice talk, we were all very happy. As we know, Li Songbo is very good at Internet technology and free software, so when he meet Richard in person, he was very exciting too.

From left to right: Huang Dong, Hong Feng, Richard Stallman, Li Songbo, Bill Xu

Sina's studio

In the evening, we had dinner together, Richard is very good at ordering food. At that night, Richard got a new title, Ordering Chinese Food Expert.

Richard was telling me something that I forgot now.

Richard was downloading his email, during the downloading, he usually play the game.

Richard's hat. at that time, we were in Gong Min's car.

Richard want to buy some CDs of Nu Zhi 12 Yue Fang.

We were at Beijing GNU/Linux Club.

Richard want to buy a pair of new shoes.

Trying the new shoes.

from left to right, Hong Feng, Richard Stallman, Gong Min. We were at Beijing International Airport.

When Richard was at airport lounge, he was still working.

Richard and I are in the airport lounge.

Richard went to Shenzhen, and then to Hong Kong.