Downloadable RMS Lectures About Software Freedom

Goran Gugic writes "On a recent visit to Croatia Richard Stallman gave two speeches which are now available as podcasts: 'Dangers of Software Patents' (OGG, 80MB, 132') and 'GNU Movement, Free Software and the Future of Freedom' (OGG, 65MB, 110'). The files can be found in the podcast section (site in Croatian). A higher-bandwidth mirror is also available"

Why download?

Doesn't Slashdot have enough extremist views without having to download them first? :P

Why doesn't FSF put talks on their website?

I've always wondered why the FSF doesn't link to downloadable speeches from their website. I think a lot of people would like to see one, but don't usually know where to look. I realise there are essays on the FSF website, but having attended an RMS speech on "copyright versus community", I can say that the essays aren't quite as informative as the speeches are.

OGG?

Does anyone have it in WMV or MPEG4 format?

(hides)

Question

Why are they called 'podcasts' if they're in OGG format and therefore not playable on an iPod?

Great!

These are exactly what I've been waiting for. They are sure to liven up any party.

Transcripts and other downloads

When Stallman was at FOSDEM recently, I recorded and made a transcript of his GPLv3 talk [www.ifso.ie].

And last time he came to Dublin, Irish Free Software Organisation recorded and made a transcript of his software patents lecture [www.ifso.ie].

More transcripts and recordings can be found on IFSO's transcripts/recordings page [www.ifso.ie], and the GNU philosophy recordings page [gnu.org].

Stallman will give his rare business speech this Thursday, March 16th, at the FOSS Means Business [foss-means-business.org] event in Belfast, Northern Ireland. That should be recorded and made available soon afterward - if the recording goes well.

Portable Pedantry

When I saw this headline, I thought that we could now download RMS, who will then lecture us about software freedom.

Devious idea

An idea for the aspiring mad scientists among us:- Combine these sound files with this [neurophone.com], and the techniques contained here [totse.com] for a potentially highly effective, DNI free software mind control device.

Good for corporate politicians, dissenting family members, etc. They'll end up craving Linux without even knowing why!

Why does software need freedom?

How is software (I am not talking about scientific ideas or algorithms) any different from, say, a design of an internal combustion engine. Does that, too, need to be freed?

It is not to say that there should not be open designs out there, but the proclamation of some kind of human right to read whatever designs produced by industry sounds crazy.