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The introduction to this speech is in French. The body of the speech is given in English. Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled The Dangers of Software Patents given at University of New South Wales, Australia on 14th October 2004 Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled Software Patents - Dangers to development given at Westminster University on 26th October 2003 note: BMK's speech starts with a few seconds of background noise. (Possibly the projection screen motor) 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 vs. 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 Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled Software Patents - Dangers to development given at the London School of Economics on 3rd December 2002 Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled Software Patents - Obstacles to software development given at the Computer science lab, Cambridge University, England on 25th March 2002. Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled Copyright vs Community in the age of computer Networks at the Queen Mary University, London. 12th February 2002 Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled What Should it Mean to Promote Free Software? at a special recording session for an event in Curitiba, Brazil. Richard Stallman; "This is a speech that I recorded so it could be played at a free software event in Curitiba, Brazil (the state of Parana), in November, 2003. A few points in the speech will not be clear without some background. The event was actually a corporate trade show, but its title gave the impression of being more of an activist event. The organizers recruited a free software activist to run the speeches track, and he convinced me to attend. Between the title and the fact that my friend was the one asking me, and the fact that the state government of Parana was sponsoring the event, I assumed it was bona-fide free software activism. I agreed to go. A scandal broke in Brazil when it became known that the event had accepted Microsoft as a major sponsor. My friend tried to defend this as "spending the enemy's money"; he didn't realize that Microsoft knows what it is doing when it buys its way into such events. Then he told me, "Besides, the other major sponsor was Oracle." Most of our community is not sufficiently politically aware to recognize that Oracle's sponsorship ought to be just as scandalous as Microsoft's. Regardless of who the owner is, non-free software tramples your freedom. I was not sure whether to attend the conference or boycott it. Ultimately I was unable to go to Brazil because of my broken arm. I decided that any harm my participation might do was already done through the use of my name, and that it was better for me to give a speech about what had gone wrong than not to do so. In this speech, I sought to educate rather than attack the free software activists who participated in the event, as well as the state government of Parana, which I hope will continue promoting free software in the future, but next time will get better guidance in how to do so." Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled Copyright vs Community in the age of computer Networks at the Queen Mary University, London. 12th February 2002 This speech is 2 hours, 10 minutes long and encoded in Ogg Vorbis format Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation at New York University in New York, New York on 29 May 2001. This speech is approximately 2 hours, 17 minutes long. Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 19 April 2001. Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System at ArsDigita University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 2 January 2001. This speech is 2 hours, 22 minutes, long and encoded in Ogg Vorbis format. The speech is distributed in one Ogg Vorbis file Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System at LinuxTag [sic] 2000 in Stuttgart, Germany on 1 July 2000. Richard M. Stallman gave this speech entitled The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA on 24 January 2000. RMS' visit to Cincinnati was co-sponsored by the University of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group.