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Streaming Video Of Richard Stallman

Posted by michael on from the things-to-scare-children-with dept.

incognit writes: "ArsDigita University produced a streaming video of Richard Stallman's 1.5 hour speech on the Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System that he gave at ArsDigita University on 2 January 2001."

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  1. Irony by HerrNewton · · Score: 2

    RMS speech streamed using Real which, at least on the Mac, seems to be one of the finickiest, crash-prone pieces of marketoid bloatware in existance. Be very wary when installing or your email address will get opted-in so to speak.

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  2. It sucks on MS platforms, too by scotpurl · · Score: 2

    I have to use Win98, NT 4, and Win 2000 daily, and Real always crashes if you close the application rather than taking the time to poke the Stop button first. About half the time it'll force a reboot in Win98.

    It's a flaming piece of shit. The folks at Real need to stop throwing newer versions out, and put some error checking into the existing versions. The whole thing feels like it's still in early beta testing.

  3. Way to go ArsDigita by L-Train8 · · Score: 2

    I was wondering how good a tuition-free "university" that compared its curiculum to MIT and Carnegie-Mellon could really be. But this is certainly evidence of world-class lectures going on there. It was said in this thread that RMS's speaking fees are pretty reasonable, so maybe that was a factor. Even so, if ArsDigita can put together lectures like these consistently, for no cost to the students, it is a very impressive accomplishment.

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