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Speeches and Interviews (in reverse chronological order)

• Video recording of Copyright vs. Community speech with brief text description, given by Richard Stallman on July 5, 2007 in Missassauga, Ontario, Canada.
• Transcript of a speech given by Richard Stallman in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) on August, 2006.
• Jonathan Roberts interviews Richard Stallman and others on free software.
• Bill Xu interviews Richard Stallman on DRM. You can also read it in Chinese.
• Eben Moglen, “Free Software and Free Media”, at the Jefferson Market Library in New York, New York, May 3, 2006 for the Metropolitan NY Chapter of the Internet Society
• Richard Stallman interviewed by Justin Podur on “Free Software as a Social Movement”, 01 December 2005
• Richard Stallman interviewed by Federico Biancuzzi for ONLamp.com, 22 September 2005
• Presentation of the goals and philosophy of the GNU operating system by Richard Stallman in University of Pittsburgh, April 7th 2005
• Richard Stallman's interview with Timothy R. Butler, 31 March 2005.
• Transcript of a speech given by Richard M. Stallman at National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, 17 February 2004.
• Richard Stallman's interview with NetEconomie.com (In French) 10 December 2004
• Transcript of a panel presentation, “New developments in patent practice: assessing the risks and cost of portfolio licensing and hold-ups”, given by Daniel B. Ravicher as the executive director of the Public Patent Foundation on Wednesday, November 10, 2004, at a conference organized by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) in Brussels, Belgium
• Synopsis of a speech given by Richard M. Stallman about software patents on 14 October 2004.
• Web page with interviews/audio/video from speeches in Madrid (May 2004) given by Richard M. Stallman (site is in Spanish)
• Transcript of a speech given by Prof. Eben Moglen at Harvard on 23 February, 2004.
• Transcript of a speech given by Richard M. Stallman at WSIS, 16 July 2003.
• Transcript of a speech given by Richard M. Stallman, 21 April 2003.
• Audio recording of a speech, Software Freedom and the GNU Generation, given by Bradley M. Kuhn 22 April 2003.
• Audio recording of a speech, Software Patents:Obstacles to software development, given by Richard M. Stallman at the University of Cambridge, England 25th March 2002. A transcript of the speech is also available.
• Richard Stallman interview in 2002, talking about the hacker community and ethics , this interview is also available in Finnish.
• Richard Stallman's interview, Perché l'open source non è tutto, in italian, to the Mytech website, 22 April 2003. (The title reads, Because Open Source is not all.)
• Audio recording of a speech, Copyright vs Community in the age of computer Networks, given by Richard M. Stallman at Queen Mary University of London, England 12th Feb 2002.
• Audio recording in French of a speech, l'éthique du système GNU/Linux et de la communauté des logiciels libres, les tâches à accomplir et les risques à envisager, given by Richard M. Stallman at CNIT à la Défense, Paris, France. 27th Jan 2002. (A number of other speeches in several languages are also available on audio-video.gnu.org.
• Audio recordings and a partial transcript of the conference given by Richard M. Stallman to the French National Assembly on 20th November 2001.
• Transcript of the speech, The Danger of Software Patents by Richard M. Stallman given at Government Model Engineering College, India on 24th July 2001. Also, the MEC has posted an audio recording and transcript at their website.
• Richard Stallman's interview with Louis Suarez-Potts in May of 2001.
• Audio recording of a speech, Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation, given by Richard M. Stallman at New York University. A transcript of the speech is also available.
• Transcript of a speech, Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks, given by Richard M. Stallman at MIT.
• Audio recording of a speech, Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks, given by Richard M. Stallman at MIT.
• Audio recording of a speech, The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, given by Richard M. Stallman at ArsDigita University.
• Audio recording of a speech, The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, given by Richard M. Stallman at Auditorium Smelt, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Audio recording of a speech, The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, given by Richard M. Stallman at LinuxTag 2000.
• Audio recording of a speech, The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, given by Richard M. Stallman at the University of Cincinnati.
• Interview from Linux Magazine in July 1999 with Richard Stallman
• Transcription (in French) of a speech that Richard Stallman gave in 1998 at the University of Paris.
• English translation of a speech that Georg Greve gave in 1998 at the GNU/Linux Cluster “CLOWN” in Germany (German original)
• BYTE Interview in July 1986 with Richard Stallman
• A speech that Richard Stallman gave in 1986 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden
• An index of French recordings at audio-video.gnu.org is also available.

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