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Associated resources (transcripts, subtitles, etc., if any) are also listed.
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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)
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Free Software and the Four Freedoms
(2010)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: Software Freedom Day
Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Duration: 8min 21s
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0
(CC BY-ND 3.0)
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An address by Richard Stallman to Software Freedom Day events.
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La educación y el conocimiento libres
(2008)
By: Richard Stallman
Date: July 15, 2008
Location: Recorded at the Free Knowledge, Free Technology event
in Barcelona, Spain
Language: Spanish with subtitles
in several languages
Duration: 6min 11s
Copyright © 2008 Richard M. Stallman
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0
(CC BY-ND 3.0)
In this six-min video Richard Stallman explains briefly and to the point
the principles of Free Software and how they connect to education.
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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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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)
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Transcript on Richard Stallman's blog
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.
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Introduction to Free Software
(Delft, 2011)
By: Richard Stallman
Date: February 21, 2011
Location: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Language: English
Duration: 4min 37s
Copyright © 2011 Richard Stallman
License: Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire
speech recording are permitted provided this notice is preserved.
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Free Software
(2011)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: PirateCon, Prague, Czech Republic
Date: January 29, 2011
Language: English with English and Czech subtitles
Duration: 4min 56s
Copyright © 2011 Richard M. Stallman
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0
(CC BY-ND 3.0)
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Freedom in Practice at the Irimpanam School
(2010)
By: VHSS Irimpanam School
Date: 2010
Location: Tripunithura, Kerala, India
Language: Malayalam with subtitles
in several languages
Duration: 5min 22s
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
(CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Introduction to the Free Software Movement
(2008)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: FSCONS, Manchester, October 24-26, 2008
Date: September 30, 2008
Language: English
Duration: 6min 17s
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0
(CC BY-ND 3.0)
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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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Video 320x240 Ogg Theora/Vorbis (21.2 MB)
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How GIMP Changed Mani's Life
(2008)
By: Abhigyan Singh
Date: 2008
Language: English subtitles
Duration: 3min 3s
Copyright © 2008 Abhigyan Singh (?)
Copyright © 2008 Ambedkar Community Computer Center AC3 (?)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 United
States (CC BY-ND 3.0)
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Richard Stallman calls for the creation of a Free Universal Encyclopedia and Learning Resource
(New Orleans, 1999)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: 30th Technical Symposium of SIGCSE (Association for
Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science
Education)
Date: March 26, 1999
Location: New Orleans, LA
Language: English
Duration: 2min 29s
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0
International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
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Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference
(1984)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: First Hackers Conference
Thanks to: Fabrice Florin
Date: November 9-11, 1984
Location: Sausalito, CA
Language: English
Duration: 58s
Copyright © 1984 Richard Stallman (speech)
Copyright © 1985 Fabrice Florin (original video)
Copyright © 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. (this video)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0
International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
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Video (mixed clips) 540x360 WebM VP8/Vorbis (3.8 MB)
It was at this conference that Richard Stallman
first publicly and explicitly stated the idea that all software
should be free, and the ethical principles that set the foundations
of the free software movement.
The scenes were extracted by the GNU Webmasters Team from the
documentary Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age, with
permission from Fabrice Florin, in May 2022.