Below is the table of contents for a transcript I just put online of a 2006 talk by Richard Stallman on "Free Software and the Future of Freedom". Twenty years ago, someone made a transcript of a free software talk he gave in Stocholm. There are quite a lot of similarities between the 2006 version Read more »
(Update: There is now a list of free software transcripts, including a section for RMS transcripts.) Below is a transcript of Richard Stallman’s presentation, on a panel titled "Is Free/Open Source Software the Answer?", on the 18th of November at the 2005 World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia. For more on WSIS, Read more »
The audience responses to FOSS Means Business were really positive. Perens’ delivery was as good as I expected, and the content of his talk was better than I expected. I think everyone liked him. To me, Stallman’s talk did not seem well adapted to the business audience, but all the comments I got afterward were Read more »
There’s a lot of energy in Northern Ireland right now about free software, particularly in medium-sized businesses and the public sector. One sign of the energy is that a big event is being organised for March 16th, with Richard Stallman and Bruce Perens – but that will soon be announced properly. Another is that the Read more »