Recordings about GNU Philosophy and History

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 * Software libre en la educación (2009)

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

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Play * Software libre: aspectos éticos, sociales y prácticos (2009)

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Play * Free Software: Ethical, Social and Practical Aspects (2009)

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Play La libertad con software libre (Culhuacan, 2009)

Copyright © 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Play Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (New York, 2009)

Copyright © 2009 Richard Stallman
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Play A Free Digital Society (Christchurch, 2009)

Copyright © 2009 Richard Stallman
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To make a digital society worthy of being included in, we must overcome six menaces to freedom: surveillance, censorship, restricted data formats, proprietary software, software as a service, and the war on sharing.

--Richard Stallman


Play Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (Christchurch, 2009)

Copyright © 2009 Richard Stallman
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Play The Danger of Software Patents (Wellington, 2009)

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

Copyright © 2009 Richard Stallman and PCRadio
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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)

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  • Audio Ogg Vorbis (17.7 MB)

Play Copyright vs Community (Philadelphia, 2009)

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Play Droit d'auteur et libertés numériques, comment ce dernier doit être assoupli (Nanterre, 2009)

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Play Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (Edmonton, 2009)

Copyright © 2009 Richard Stallman
License:  Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 United States License (CC BY-ND 3.0)

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Play Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks (Calgary, 2009)

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Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. But if we seriously hope to serve the only legitimate purpose of copyright—to promote progress, for the benefit of the public—then we must make changes in the other direction.


Play Free Software Movement (New York, 2009)

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