Stallman — 20 Years of Explaining Free Software

H4x0r Jim Duggan writes "The first recorded talk by Richard Stallman on free software was in 1986, so I've picked from the 2006 recordings and have made a transcript of a recent talk: The Free Software Movement and the Future of Freedom. Those two are the only transcripts of his general free software talk. Others that exist are on specific topics such as patents, GPLv3, copyright, etc. For those who've been reading Slashdot during the gradual evolution of Stallman's pronouncements, it's interesting to see what has changed over 20 years."

Comments

Messenger Killing the Message

[WED Fan]

Stallman is brilliant, and driven.

Stallman is an evangelical nut job.

I try not to think of Stallman when I think of FOSS, because I like to think about freedom instead of socialism, and while not exclusive, the human implementations of either almost always work against the other.

If Stallman were trying to sell me a particular model car, I'd walk off the lot, shake it off, and buy the same model from a different dealer.

If Stallman is the messenger, the message is dead.