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Downloadable RMS Lectures About Software Freedom

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the live-from-Croatia dept.

Goran Gugic writes "On a recent visit to Croatia Richard Stallman gave two speeches which are now available as podcasts: 'Dangers of Software Patents' (OGG, 80MB, 132') and 'GNU Movement, Free Software and the Future of Freedom' (OGG, 65MB, 110'). The files can be found in the podcast section (site in Croatian). A higher-bandwidth mirror is also available"

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  1. Question by Uber+Banker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why are they called 'podcasts' if they're in OGG format and therefore not playable on an iPod?

    1. Re:Question by Uber+Banker · · Score: 2, Insightful

      OK, but taking the wider definition, these downloads are not part of a feed, they are two downloads, very interesting, but in isolation from other things. So why not call them audio downloads?

      Sorry, very pedantic. I just dislike throwing around buzzwords and prefer accurate, succinct and dependable descriptions; whether or not they've entered the OED.

  2. Re:Why doesn't FSF put talks on their website? by sepluv · · Score: 2, Insightful

    FTR, the FSF have released a video of that talk (about the GNU GPL v3 draft and very informative as well as funny). The torrent of the video is at http://gplv3.fsf.org/av/gplv3-draft1-release.ogg.t orrent.

    If anyone is looking for videos of RMS, the movie, RevolutionOS (2 CSS-free DVDs for $27) has a lot of footage of RMS as well as other pioneers in the movement.

    Hopefully the FSF will take videos of talks in the future now. I suspect this hasn't been done before due to practical reasons (e.g.: needing a good videocam & cameraman).

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