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Introductory videos explaining basic notions come first, and are marked
with an asterisk. The other recordings are in reverse chronological order.
Associated resources (transcripts, subtitles, etc., if any) are also listed.
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Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society
(Milan, Italy, 2025)
00:00:00 Organizers' presentation
00:05:30 Speech
00:56:00 Q&A
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Video 1920x1080 WebM VP9/Opus (663 MB)
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Free Software - The Basis of Freedom in the Digital Society
(Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2024)
Stallman's visit to Reggio Emilia is a unique opportunity to appreciate
the importance of free software in a society in which computers,
reputedly tools to support human beings, are acquiring a growing role in
controlling human activities in fields ranging from social relations to
engineering, agriculture, and most areas of life.
—Dr. Francesco Reyes
Life Sciences Department
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
00:00:00 Introduction (plus last minute technical arrangements)
00:05:40 TEDx talk video (updated with URLs on screen)
00:19:14 Speech
00:54:40 Why say software libero instead of “open source”
00:56:30 How to help
00:57:12 Q&A
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Video 1920x1080 WebM VP8/Vorbis (1.91 GB)
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Working for the public. Universities, software and freedom
(Pisa, Italy, 2023)
It is giving me a bittersweet feeling to have Richard Stallman here today.
Sweet, because this time the conference is organized by a couple of
political philosophers working at the Department of Political Science.
And this is a recognition that software is a kind of language organizing
and shaping our world, and not just a technical and business issue. It is
about free culture. It is about free speech. And it is a freedom that
deserves to be understood and protected, even to the point of hacking
copyright like Richard Stallman did. The bitterness comes from the fact
that most Italian universities are no longer the cradle of free thinking,
because they are using—or they are being used by—proprietary
clouds and software, to the point that when we had to switch to remote
teaching during the pandemics we were recommended as teachers to use
Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom. Now we are using Big Blue Button,
that is free software, and as you can see it's working perfectly.
—Maria Chiara Pievatolo
00:00:10 TEDx talk
00:13:47 Maria Chiara Pievatolo (Introduction)
00:17:33 Speech
00:58:40 Marco Calamari (Machine learning systems)
01:04:00 Francesco Potortì (Software in universities)
01:15:48 Q&A
02:24:10 Maria Chiara Pievatolo (Concluding remarks)
02:27:10 Auction
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Video 1920x1080 WebM VP9/Opus (1.51 GB)
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The State of the Free Software Movement
(2022)
Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, RMS gave his talk over audio only.
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Audio Ogg Vorbis (47.2 MB)
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Intro to Free Software and Online Dis-Services
(2022)
Stallman covered many topics about free software that were not included
in the
TEDx talk, but forgot that it didn't cover copyleft, so he did not
speak about that. To learn about copyleft, the license technique he
developed in 1985, see What is
Copyleft?
TEDx video followed by Stallman's speech.
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Video 1280x720 WebM VP8/Vorbis (1.29 GB)
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Software libre, tu libertad, y tu ciberseguridad
(2021)
During the talk there were a few connection problems which were eventually fixed. The published recording is complete and contains all of the actual speech that got through.
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Video 1280x720 WebM VP9/Vorbis (1.2 GB)
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Free Software: The Foundation of Freedom in Your Computing
(2021)
TEDx video followed by Q&A session.
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Video 1920x1080 WebM VP9/Vorbis (1.13 GB)
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On Cash and Monero
(2021)
TEDx video followed by the interview.
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Video 1920x1080 WebM VP9/Vorbis (920 MB)
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Resisting Unjust Platforms and Systems
(Lisbon, 2019)
0:00:00 to 0:01:57: Introduction by Juan Branco, in Portuguese
0:01:57 to 0:51:42: Speech by Richard Stallman, in English
0:51:42 to 0:57:38: Auction, in English
0:57:38 to 1:17:42: Conversation between Juan Branco and RMS, in English
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Video 1920x1080 WebM VP9/Opus (396 MB)
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Transcript (Speech and conversation only)
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A Free Digital Society
(Ann Arbor, 2013)
The video is cut at 1h 27min 21s; we don't know how much is missing.
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Video 640x480 Ogg Theora/Vorbis (273 MB)
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Free Software and Your Freedom
(Portland, 2011)
The video files are broken into segments, and are offered in both Ogg Theora and WebM in both 480p and 720p versions.
- Video 852x480 Ogg Theora/Vorbis:
- Video 1280x720 Ogg Theora/Vorbis:
- Video 852x480 WebM VP8/Vorbis:
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The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
(San Diego, 2007)
Corrupted Ogg, but can be played with VLC.
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Video 640x480 Ogg Theora/Vorbis (156 MB)
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Software Freedom and the GNU Generation
(Urbana, 2004)
- Copyright: 2004 Free Software Society
- License: Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire speech recording are permitted provided this notice is preserved.
In this speech, Brad Kuhn, executive director of the Free Software Foundation,
talks about his beginnings in the free software movement, and gives concrete
examples from his experience as being a proprietary software developer as to
why free software is a far better way to make and sell software. It should be
considered a excellent introduction to free software. In the question and
answer segment, Mr. Kuhn discusses with the audience far ranging topics that
effect the future of the industry, such as the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, file
formats, and the DMCA.
This speech was presented by the Free Software Society, a student
organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign dedicated to
the promotion of free software.
BMK's speech starts with a few seconds of background noise. (Possibly the projection screen motor).
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Audio Ogg Vorbis (17.8 MB)
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The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System
(Stuttgart, 2000)
- Copyright: 2000 Richard Stallman
- License: Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire speech recording are permitted provided this notice is preserved.
The recording is blank after 1h 57min.
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Audio Ogg Vorbis (19.2 MB)
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