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."

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Will Stallman ever get over this?

[AlanS2002]

"However, the confusion of thinking that the entire system was Linux, that it had all been developed by the college student in 1991 has been extremely harmful to the Free Software movement ever since because it broke the connection from our software to our philosophy.

When I'm running a windows box I don't say it's a MS Windows/Firefox/Gaim/Azuerus/etc OS. I don't see how it's any different for running a machine running Linux. Fair enough, credit where credit is due, however all the GNU stuff in the world amounted to nothing until the Linux kernel came along (and in all probability still would not of).