Speeches and Interviews (in reverse chronological order)
- Transcript
of an interview with Richard Stallman for Radio New Zealand,
conducted by Kim Hill on August 9, 2008. It covers various topics
— free software, the dawn of the free software movement, the
fallacy of the term “intellectual property”, Google's
services and New Zealand's Copyright laws.
-
Free Software Movement: From Genesis to the GNU GPL version 2,
an interview with Richard Stallman conducted by Bill Xu
(Chinese
version also available).
- Video
recording of Copyright vs. Community speech with brief
text description, given by Richard Stallman on July 5, 2007
in Missassauga, Ontario, Canada.
- Transcript of a speech
given by Richard Stallman
about free software and the West Bengal government, in Kolkata
(formerly Calcutta) on August, 2006.
- Jonathan
Roberts interviews Richard Stallman and others on free software.
- Bill
Xu interviews Richard Stallman on DRM. You can also read
it in
Chinese.
- Eben Moglen, “Free
Software and Free Media”, at the Jefferson Market Library
in New York, New York, May 3, 2006 for the Metropolitan NY Chapter
of the Internet Society
-
Richard Stallman interviewed by Justin Podur on “Free
Software as a Social Movement”, 01 December 2005
- Richard Stallman
interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi about the importance of
the GPL, for ONLamp.com, 22 September 2005
- Presentation of the goals
and philosophy of the GNU operating system by
Richard Stallman in
University of Pittsburgh, April 7th 2005
- Richard Stallman's
interview with Timothy R. Butler on “The state of
GNU/Linux”, 31 March 2005.
- Transcript of a speech
on free software given by
Richard M. Stallman at National Institute of Technology,
Trichy, India, 17 February 2004.
- Richard
Stallman's
interview with NetEconomie.com (In French) 10 December
2004
- Transcript of a panel
presentation, “New developments in patent practice:
assessing the risks and cost of portfolio licensing and
hold-ups”, given by Daniel B. Ravicher as the executive
director of the Public Patent Foundation on Wednesday, November
10, 2004, at a conference organized by the Foundation for a Free
Information Infrastructure (FFII) in Brussels, Belgium
- Synopsis of a
speech given by Richard
M. Stallman about software patents on 14 October 2004.
- Interview
with Richard Stallman that took place at the School of Informatics,
Edinburgh University, on 27th May 2004. Originally
published at Indymedia, most of the questions are about the the
relationship between the free software movement and other social
movements, and the different values of the “open
source” campaign.
-
Web page with interviews/audio/video from speeches in Madrid (May 2004)
given by Richard M. Stallman (site is in Spanish)
- Transcript
of a speech about copyright law and SCO given
by Prof. Eben
Moglen at Harvard on 23 February, 2004.
- Transcript of a speech
about free software and sustainable development given
by Richard M. Stallman at
WSIS, 16 July 2003.
- Transcript of a speech about
the future of free software given
by Richard M. Stallman, 21
April 2003.
- Audio
recording of a speech, Software Freedom and the GNU
Generation, given by Bradley M. Kuhn 22 April
2003.
- Transcript of a
speech given in French by Richard Stallman at
“LinuxExpo”, Paris, 2002.
- Audio
recording of a speech, Software Patents:Obstacles to
software development, given by Richard M. Stallman at the
University of Cambridge, England 25th March 2002.
A transcript of the
speech is also available.
- Richard Stallman interview in 2002, talking about the hacker community and ethics
, this interview is also available in Finnish.
- Richard Stallman's
interview, Perché l'open source non è tutto, in italian, to the Mytech website, 22 April 2003. (The title reads, Because Open Source is not all.)
- Audio
recording of a speech, Copyright vs Community in the age of
computer Networks, given by Richard M. Stallman at Queen
Mary University of London, England 12th Feb 2002.
- Audio
recording in French of a speech, l'éthique du
système GNU/Linux et de la communauté des logiciels
libres, les tâches à accomplir et les risques à
envisager, given by Richard M. Stallman at CNIT à la
Défense, Paris, France. 27th Jan 2002. (A number of other
speeches in several languages are also available on audio-video.gnu.org.
- Audio recordings and a partial transcript of the conference given by Richard M. Stallman to the French National Assembly on 20th November 2001.
- Transcript of the speech, The Danger of Software Patents by Richard M. Stallman given at Government Model Engineering College, India on 24th July 2001. Also, the MEC has posted an audio recording and transcript at their website.
- Richard
Stallman's
interview about free software and business with Louis
Suarez-Potts in May of 2001.
- Audio
recording of a speech, Free Software: Freedom and
Cooperation, given by Richard M. Stallman at New York
University.
A transcript of the
speech is also available.
- Transcript of
a speech, Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer
Networks, given by Richard M. Stallman at MIT.
- Audio
recording of a speech, Copyright and Globalization in the
Age of Computer Networks, given by Richard M. Stallman at
MIT.
- Audio
recording of a speech, The Free Software Movement and the
GNU/Linux Operating System, given by Richard M. Stallman at
ArsDigita University.
- Audio
recording of a speech, The Free Software Movement and the
GNU/Linux Operating System, given by Richard M. Stallman at
Auditorium Smelt, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- Audio
recording of a speech, The Free Software Movement and the
GNU/Linux Operating System, given by Richard M. Stallman at
LinuxTag 2000.
- Audio
recording of a speech, The Free Software Movement and the
GNU/Linux Operating System, given by Richard M. Stallman at
the University of Cincinnati.
- Transcription (in French) of a
speech that
Richard Stallman
gave in 1998 at the University of
Paris.
- English translation of a
speech about the history and philosophy of the GNU Project
that Georg Greve gave in 1998 at the GNU/Linux Cluster
“CLOWN” in Germany
(German
original).
- BYTE Interview
in July 1986 with
Richard Stallman about
the development of the GNU system.
- A speech
that Richard Stallman
gave in 1986 at the Royal Institute of Technology in
Sweden about the hacker community and the early days of the
free software movement.
- An index of French recordings at audio-video.gnu.org is also available.
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