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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 Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

      To recursively promote people hacking up an Ogg player for iPods and releasing it as free software?

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    2. Re:Question by Panaphonix · · Score: 2, Informative

      Oooh, zinger. The term podcast now encompasses a wide range of audio downloading activities.

    3. 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. Transcripts and other downloads by H4x0r+Jim+Duggan · · Score: 4, Informative

    When Stallman was at FOSDEM recently, I recorded and made a transcript of his GPLv3 talk.

    And last time he came to Dublin, Irish Free Software Organisation recorded and made a transcript of his software patents lecture.

    More transcripts and recordings can be found on IFSO's transcripts/recordings page, and the GNU philosophy recordings page.

    Stallman will give his rare business speech this Thursday, March 16th, at the FOSS Means Business event in Belfast, Northern Ireland. That should be recorded and made available soon afterward - if the recording goes well.

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

    There is now a list, Audio and Video Recordings about our Philosophy, on the FSF website.

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