Bill Gates Puts Classic Feynman Lectures Online

theodp writes "Okay Tux fans, let's see how badly you want to see Feynman's Messenger Lectures on Physics. Bill Gates has the goods over at Microsoft Research's Project Tuva site. Also, CNET's Ina Fried has an interesting interview with Gates. He goes into why he spent his own money to make a series of classic physics lectures available free on the Web, talks about the possibility of Project Natal bringing gesture recognition to Windows, gives his thoughts on Google's Chrome OS, and discusses plans to patent 'cows that don't fart.' The last is a joke. I think."

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Then Use Moonlight Instead

[eldavojohn]

He goes into why he spent his own money to make a series of classic physics lectures available free on the Web

That's easy. It's a good way to lure technically minded people into installing Silverlight. No sale here Gates, I'll wait until it's available by torrent.

For the technically literate, Moonlight is open source. You should try it out to view these. Word of warning, it uses some of the same protocols so if you're concerned about violating Microsoft's copyright, better to avoid it. They are listed under the community promise now but you never know. And if you're RMS, you're probably going to rip this post apart.

Youtube links for non-sliverlighters

[RyanHam]

Youtube links for non-sliverlighters
List all lectures
Richard Feynman - The Relation of Mathematics & Physics
Richard Feynman - The Law of Gravitation
Feynman: Quantum Electrodynamics.

Re:I know why.

[Mr2cents]

I saw 4 feynman lectures put online here, he became my hero instantly. He was a great man.

Re:Why did Bill Gates have to pay to buy the right

[dlakelan]

Caltech (not Cal Tech) is a private university, though it receives significant public funding like any research university. However, I don't believe the development of these lectures was publicly funded.