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Audio from Saturday, 09 August 2008
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| As mentioned at the end of the interview with Richard Stallman, audio from
| this week's programme is available in the Ogg Vorbis format.
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| This format is openly documented and patent-free professional audio encoding
| format. If you wish to try it you may already have a player that is
| compatible. More information can be obtained from the Vorbis.com website.
|
| 08:45 Richard Stallman: Freedom (Ogg Vorbis)
| Software freedom activist visiting New Zealand to help promote the use,
| dissemination and ideals of free software.
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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday
Re: Release plans
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| Richard M. Stallman wrote:
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| I did not "set any standard" just now. I am simply restating, and
| applying, the goals of the GNU Project which I set in 1983.
|
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| Our goal is not "helping users" (i.e., giving them whatever they
| happen to want). Our goal is establishing freedom for computer users.
|
|
| Leading people to escape from Windows is a positive result.
| Making use of Windows more convenient is not.
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| Windows hardly matters anymore.
|
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| Windows is not growing much in functionality. Meanwhile,
| what functionality is so often "tied" to it is being whittled away
| by programs that run on *any* operating system by sticking to
| W3C standards (and closely related de facto standards).
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|
| In a sense, the writing is on the wall and the Emacs
| *architecture* will inevitably win (although, probably not GNU Emacs itself,
| on the current trajectory): Javascript
| instead of Emacs lisp; an in-memory, editable DOM object
| instead of buffers; mostly HTTP as the "universal system
| call".
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-08/msg00467.html
Recent:
Richard Stallman and how easily we have traded away our freedom to share.
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| I enjoyed Richard Stallman’s talk on Copyright vs Community in the Age of
| Computer Networks in Auckland on Friday. Nix has gazumped me, her post and
| the links provided well capture the way in which rms unwrapped his thinking
| for the audience. I much admired the way in which complex ideas were
| simplified and framed in historical, legal, economic, political and societal
| contexts to maximise the connections made. Stallman must have given this
| presentation many times before, yet apart from a sense that none of the
| questions asked at the end of the session challenged what he had heard
| before, he was persuasively passionate in his delivery. Powerful thinking
| and provocative ideas were shared in a way that made them available for all.
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http://artichoke.typepad.com/artichoke/2008/08/richard-stallman-and-how-easily-we-have-traded-away-our-freedom-to-share.html
Richard Stallman lives and works by his principles
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| Not enough of us are willing to truly sacrifice for the principles we believe
| in. If for no other reason than that, Stallman has earned the admiration he
| has inspired.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=323954&source=rss_topic122
Copyright Depth Perception
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| Friday saw a trip into town with Artichoke to see and hear Richard Stallman
| talking about Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks. RMS (as
| he likes to be known) was very engaging and spoke passionately about why
| there should be dramatic changes in global copyright law. The lecture theatre
| was packed to overflowing with the cream of Auckland’s Geekerarti and we were
| right in the thick of it.
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http://www.nixit.co.nz/wordpress/2008/08/10/copyright-depth-perception/
Free software pioneer Richard Stallman on his experience in Cuba
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| In February of last year, Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the
| Free Software Foundation, spoke at the International Conference on
| Communication and Technologies in Havana about what he strongly believes are
| the merits of non-proprietary software. I recently learned directly from
| Stallman what that experience was like.
|
| I interviewed Stallman at length on July 31 outside his MIT office, and I'll
| post the interview on our site in the near future. Here's an excerpt in which
| Stallman talked about his time in Cuba.
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| [...]
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| DT: I've editorialized that U.S. companies should be allowed to compete in
| Cuba. What's your position on that?
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| RMS: I really don't care. From my point of view, business issues are minor in
| comparison with issues of human rights and general well-being. And I reject
| completely the assumption that the way to improve people's well-being is
| always through a market. A market is a tool, and for some things it's very
| good. It can work well in some areas of life, as long as somebody is making
| sure it doesn't go haywire. One of the things we see when businesses have too
| much power is that they corrupt those watchdogs, and we see this in the U.S.
| all the time. The U.S. government has ceased to effectively monitor the
| market to make sure it works well. Instead, it is a tool in the hands of big
| business. So instead of capitalism of a useful kind, we now have extreme
| capitalism, which is thoroughly corrupt. And the results of that are
| increasingly bad, here and everywhere else.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/stallman_on_cuba
Free Software leader slams NZ copyright
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| “New Zealand’s law does not go as far as the DMCA in the US, but it is unjust
| nonetheless,” he says.
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| “DRM is nearly always the result of a conspiracy of companies to restrict the
| technology available to the public. Such conspiracy should be a crime, and
| the executives responsible for it should be sentenced to prison.”
|
| Stallman’s other mission here is to promote the Free Software Movement. The
| creator of the GPL licence, under which most free software is distributed, is
| at pains to correct misunderstandings of what the term “free software” means
| and to draw a distinction between it and the open source movement.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/0064FE274A08BA2CCC25749A00383CB3
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