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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 * What is GNU+Linux? (2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Recorded by:  Muktware (Free and open source web magazine)
Date:  March 16, 2013
Language:  English
Duration:  2min 7s

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

Play A Free Digital Society (Lincoln, UK, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  November 29, 2013
Location:  Jackson Lecture Theatre, Lincoln, UK
Language:  English
Duration:  2h 31min

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

  • Audio Ogg Vorbis (69.1 MB)
Play A Free Digital Society (Dublin, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  November 1, 2013
Location:  Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Language:  English
Duration:  2h 22min

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

  • Video 1280x720 WebM VP9/Opus (947 MB)
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)

  • Video 854x468 WebM VP8/Vorbis (33.4 MB)
Play GNU 30-year anniversary celebration – Richard Stallman (Cambridge, MA, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Event:  GNU-30
Host(s):  John Sullivan and FSF staff
Date:  September 28, 2013
Location:  MIT, Cambridge, MA
Language:  English
Duration:  42min

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

Play GNU 30-year anniversary celebration – John Sullivan (Cambridge, MA, 2013)

By:  John Sullivan
Event:  GNU-30
Date:  September 28, 2013
Location:  MIT, Cambridge, MA
Language:  English
Duration:  47min

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

This speech features a presentation of some hackaton projects.

Play Trentième anniversaire du projet GNU (Saint-Denis, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Event:  GNU-30
Date:  September 21, 2013
Location:  Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
Language:  French
Duration:  2h 10min

License:  Creative Commons attribution, pas de modification, 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)

Play A Free Digital Society (Sophia-Antipolis, France, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  September 19, 2013
Location:  Eurecom & Telecom ParisTech, SophiaTech Campus, Biot, France
Language:  English
Duration:  1h 34min

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

  • Video 320x240 Ogg Theora/Vorbis (662 MB)
Play Free Software and Your Freedom (New York, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  August 5, 2013
Location:  New York City University, New York, NY
Language:  English
Duration:  2h 17min

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

  • Video 1280x720 Ogg Theora/Vorbis (1.72 GB)
Play Richard Stallman inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame – his short acceptance speech (Berlin, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  August 3, 2013
Location:  InterContinental Hotel, Berlin, Germany
Language:  English
Duration:  3min 38s

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

The Internet Hall of Fame celebrates Internet visionaries, innovators, and leaders from around the world who believed in the design and potential of an open Internet and, through their work, helped change the way we live and work today.

Play Le développement d'Internet et les libertés (Bruxelles, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Event:  14èmes RMLL
Date:  July 10, 2013
Location:  Bruxelles, Belgique
Language:  French
Duration:  1h 54min

License:  Creative Commons attribution, pas de modification, 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)

  • Video 1280x720 WebM VP8/Vorbis (535 MB)
Play El movimiento del software libre (Ciudad Madero, Mexico, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  May 29, 2013
Location:  Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, Ciudad Madero, Mexico
Language:  Spanish
Duration:  1h 1min

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

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  • Audio Ogg Vorbis (37.2 MB)
Play A Free Digital Society (Warsaw, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  March 13, 2013
Location:  Politechnika Warszawska, Warsaw, Poland
Language:  English
Duration:  1h 52min

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

Play Copyright vs Community (Nottingham, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  March 11, 2013
Location:  The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Language:  English
Duration:  2h 3min

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

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 (Dublin, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  February 4, 2013
Location:  Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Language:  English
Duration:  2h 10min

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

Play Por una sociedad digital libre (Valencia, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  January 29, 2013
Location:  Universitat de València, València, España
Language:  Spanish
Duration:  2h 14min

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

  • Video 720x404 WebM VP8/Vorbis (1.35 GB)
Play A Free Digital Society (Ann Arbor, 2013)

By:  Richard Stallman
Date:  January 17, 2013
Location:  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Language:  English
Duration:  1h 46min

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

The video is cut at 1h 27min 21s; we don't know how much is missing.

  • Video 640x480 Ogg Theora/Vorbis (273 MB)