The University of Pavia, in Italy, recently awarded Richard Stallman with an honorary degree. Stallman gave a short speech, his "lectio doctoralis", on the ethical imperative to use free software, focussing on individuals and schools. The speech has been transcribed by Alessandro Rubini, with checking by Dora Scillipoti and Luca Andreucci. The transcript text, with Read more »
A transcript is now online of: RMS’s April 1st GPLv3 talk. Audio and video recordings will be online later today. Topics covered in the talk include: What is Free Software? The GNU project Free Software licences Internationalisation Tivoisation Tivoisation – the limits in draft 3 Deflating the EUCD and DMCA Novell, Microsoft, and patents Termination Read more »
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 »
I’ve made a transcript of Richard Stallman’s talk at the recent 4th international GPLv3 conference in Bangalore, India. I would really appreciate some help with spreading this transcript around to websites, mailing lists, and forums of the community. A mainstream news website has published a shockingly FUD-filled article, so it’s important that some intelligent information Read more »
In the Q+A session after a recent talk by Alan Cox in Limerick, he was asked for his thoughts on GPLv3. Below is a transcript of his off-the-cuff reply, and then my comments. His comments were quite positive. The only issue he raised was that draft 1’s wording for thwarting DRM was a bit heavy-handed. Read more »
I was really glad that a Fellow of FSFE living in Brussels, Sean Daly, was able to come down to the GPLv3 conference and record the whole thing with his camera. The content is important and high quality, and the goal of this conference was to spread information, so it would have been a terrible Read more »
Well, I said I’d make the most of my trip to Brazil, so here’s a transcript of Richard Stallman’s presenation at the second international GPLv3 conference that took place there: http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/fisl-rms-transcript.en.html Made from a very low quality video which I took with my digital camera. The conference organisers will be putting proper videos online when Read more »
I’ve made and put online a transcript of the recent presentation by RMS about GPLv3: http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript.en.html After making the previous one, I thought I wouldn’t do it again, but they seem more important now than I had realised. Quite a number of people sent thanking emails, which is nice, particularly those who speak English as Read more »