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We only list here recordings that are hosted on audio-video.gnu.org. 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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Play Monday's Live #80 – A conversation with Richard Stallman (2021)

Host(s):  Blau Araujo, Paulo Kretcheu, Alexandre Oliva
Organizer:  debxp
Date:  May 31, 2021
Location:  Online (BigBlueButton)
Language:  English
Duration:  1h 48min

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

  • Video 1280x720 WebM VP8/Vorbis (624 MB)
Play Flisol 2021: Conexión con Richard Stallman (2021)

Event:  FLISoL (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre) 2021, Oviedo, España
Date:  April 24, 2021
Location:  Online
Language:  Spanish
Duration:  58min

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

  • Video 1920x1080 WebM VP9/Opus (233 MB)
Play On Cash and Monero (2021)

By:  Richard Stallman
Organizer:  Monero Talk
Date:  March 11, 2021
Location:  Online
Language:  English
Duration:  1h 12min

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

TEDx video followed by the interview.

  • Video 1920x1080 WebM VP9/Vorbis (920 MB)
Play Computing, Freedom and Privacy (Pato Branco, Brazil, 2018)

By:  Richard Stallman
Host(s):  Diário do Sudoeste
Date:  June 4, 2018
Location:  Pato Branco, Brazil
Language:  English
Duration:  57min

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

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Play John Sullivan interviewed at the Open World Forum (Montrouge, France, 2013)

Event:  Open World Forum
Date:  October 3, 2013
Location:  Montrouge, France
Language:  English
Duration:  5min 39s

License:  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)

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Play TV Interview at Nasul TV Romania (2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Host(s):  Alexa Ionescu for Nasul TV
Date:  February 26, 2013
Location:  Bucharest, Romania
Language:  English with Romanian subtitles
Duration:  54min

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)

Play The Free Software Movement (Singapore, 2012)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  March 14, 2012
Location:  University of Singapore
Language:  English
Duration:  16min 4s

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)

  • Video 480x272 Ogg Theora/Vorbis (106 MB)
Subjects of the interview
  • Inception of the free software movement
  • Evolution of principles of free software movement
  • Clarification on free software
  • Suggestion to start Wikipedia in '99
  • Wikipedia 10 years from now
  • About not carrying mobile phones
  • Advice to the future software developers.
Play Richard Stallman à l'Écho des gnous (Lille, 2011)

Host(s):  Alexandre, Tim et Aurore pour « l'Écho des gnous »
Recorded by:  F. & Chtinux (remix du jingle : Tim Oxy)
Date:  February 23, 2011
Location:  Radio Campus, Lille, France
Language:  French
Duration:  1h 7min

Copyright © 2011 Richard Stallman et Chtinux
License:  L'interview et les paroles de la chanson sont sous Creative Commons attribution, pas de modification, 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0); l'arrangement musical est sous Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Play Richard Stallman was a guest on Pcradioshow2.org (2) (2009)

Host(s):  Hank, Alfred, Michael
Recorded by:  PCRadio
Date:  aired on July 22, 2009
Location:  New York
Language:  English
Duration:  57min

Copyright © 2009 Richard Stallman and PCRadio
License:  Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire speech recording are permitted provided this notice is preserved.

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Our guest was Richard Stallman, the man behind GNU and the Free Software Foundation. He condems the Amazon Kindle (his term for it is the “swindle”) because it takes away freedoms that readers of hardcopy books enjoy. Freedoms such as the ability to lend a book to a friend, to borrow one from a library, to buy one anonymously by paying cash, to keep a book as long as we like and to give it away. The Amazon Kindle implements DRM—digital rights management [sic]—to restrict your use of books. He is not against eBook readers per se, just the DRM, which in addition to the above also requires you to run proprietary software to read eBooks. He urged listeners to go to Defectivebydesign.org and sign up to participate in his protests.

--PCRadio

Play Richard Stallman invité au magazine Microméga, sur RFI (Marseille, 2009)

Host(s):  Caroline Lachowsky et Jean-Yves Casgha (?) pour Microméga
Recorded by:  Terre TV Production
Date:  April 2-5, 2009
Location:  RFI, Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
Language:  French
Duration:  12min

License:  La reproduction et la distribution à l'identique de cet enregistrement sont permises pourvu que le présent avis soit conservé.

  • Audio Ogg Vorbis (17.7 MB)
Play Entrevista Stallman en Canal 2 Andalucía, en el programa Tesis (2008)

Host(s):  Canal 2 Andalucía, en el programa Tesis
Date:  April 2008
Location:  La Casa Invisible, Malaga, Spain
Language:  Spanish
Duration:  8min 43s

License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)

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Play Richard Stallman was a guest on Pcradioshow2.org (1) (2007)

Host(s):  Hank, Alfred, Michael for The Personal Computer Show
Recorded by:  PCRadio
Date:  recorded on January 1, 2007; aired on December 5, 2007
Location:  New York
Language:  English
Duration:  57min

Copyright © 2007 Richard Stallman and PCRadio
License:  Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire speech recording are permitted provided this notice is preserved.

  • Audio Ogg Vorbis (12.4 MB)
Play La libertad de actuar con solidaridad social (interview Bogota, 2005)

By:  Richard Stallman
Host(s):  Luis Fernando Medina C. (IMC Columbia)
Date:  November 2004
Location:  Bogota, Columbia
Language:  Spanish
Duration:  21min

Copyright © 2004 Richard Stallman
License:  Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire speech recording are permitted provided this notice is preserved.

Play Free Software, Free Society! (interview Edinburgh, 2004)

By:  Richard Stallman
Host(s):  anarchobabe (IMC Scotland)
Date:  May 27, 2004
Location:  Edinburgh Informatics Colloquium, UK
Language:  English
Duration:  22min

Copyright © 2004 Richard Stallman, anarchobabe (IMC Scotland)
License:  Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire speech recording are permitted provided this notice is preserved.

Play Entretien avec Richard Stallman (Paris, 2002)

Host(s):  Frédéric Couchet, avec des questions envoyées par Internet et sélectionées par l'April, et avec l'aide de Loic Dachary pour la traduction simultanée.
Recorded by:  Lionel Allorge
Date:  January 27, 2002
Location:  Paris, France
Language:  French
Duration:  45min

Copyright © 2002 Richard M. Stallman
License:  La reproduction et la distribution à l'identique de cet enregistrement sont permises pourvu que le présent avis soit conservé.

Play Richard Stallman répond aux questions du public (Paris, 2001)

Date:  November 20, 2001
Location:  Paris, France
Language:  French
Duration:  26min

Copyright © 2001 Richard Stallman
License:  La reproduction et la distribution à l'identique de cet enregistrement sont permises pourvu que le présent avis soit conservé.

Cet enregistrement ne contient que les réponses de Richard Stallman, les questions elles-mêmes étant probablement inaudibles. L'archive Tar contient des clips correspondant à chacune des questions (les deux premières sont fusionnées).

Voici les 29 questions rassemblées par Marianne Ciaudo, Antonin Billet, Pierre Fontaine et Christophe Guillemin, ainsi que leur position dans l'enregistrement :

  1. [00:00] Le pourquoi et l'historique de l'appellation Gnu/Linux
  2. [01:39] Linus Torvalds et le travail de la FSF
  3. [04:00] La philosophie de la FSF
  4. [05:16] Le fonctionnement de l'open source
  5. [06:22] Le problème SourceForge
  6. [07:01] La licence GPL n'est pas la seule licence libre
  7. [07:13] IBM et Eclipse : un projet libre
  8. [08:39] « Le logiciel propriétaire est immoral »
  9. [09:47] Le propriétaire, une option pas forcément meilleure mais plus évidente
  10. [11:11] « Beaucoup d'utilisateurs ne recherchent pas la liberté »
  11. [12:09] Les enjeux du libre
  12. [13:06] Il ne faut pas laisser le choix du libre aux développeurs
  13. [13:54] « Imposer votre préférence n'est pas la liberté, c'est le pouvoir »
  14. [15:51] La question de fond du débat selon RMS
  15. [16:07] RMS n'est pas contre la propriété en général
  16. [16:40] « C'est erreur de parler en termes de propriété intellectuelle »
  17. [18:04] Protection des droits : un abus de langage ?
  18. [18:45] La copie n'endommage pas le programme
  19. [19:07] La conception de la création selon RMS
  20. [19:53] RMS s'emporte un peu contre un journaliste
  21. [21:47] RMS et ses projets ?
  22. [22:25] Quel choix : Vi ou Emacs ?
  23. [22:30] L'arrivée de RMS chez Debian
  24. [23:08] RMS manque de diplomatie ?
  25. [23:57] Les passe-temps de RMS
  26. [24:13] RMS et la musique
  27. [24:50] RMS, cordon bleu ?
  28. [25:18] Le regard de RMS sur la France et le libre
  29. [25:58] À quand une ambassade de la FSF en France ?
Play Richard Stallman Interviewed at Radio Popolare (Milan, 1997)

By:  Richard Stallman
Host(s):  Radio Popolare
Recorded by:  Gomma TV
Date:  December 01, 1997
Location:  Milan, Italy
Language:  English with consecutive translation in Italian
Duration:  1h 3min

Copyright © 1997 Richard Stallman and Gomma TV
License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

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