Speeches and Interviews

See the video recording (and slides) of Richard Stallman's TEDx talk in Geneva, Switzerland on April 7, 2014.

Here are more of Stallman's speech and interview recordings, listed in reverse chronological order. Further recordings of speeches and other Free Software Foundation and GNU project events are available at https://audio-video.gnu.org.

• Pour une société numérique libre, transcript (in French) of a talk by RMS at Médiathèque Aragon in Choisy-le-Roi, France on April 16, 2016.
• A Free Digital Society, video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Gerthsen-Hörsaal in Karlsruhe, Germany on July 10, 2015.
• Video and audio recordings of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at the Technical University of Crete in Chaniá, Greece on May 27, 2015.
• Logiciels Libres et l'éducation (in French), video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Amphi Guilcher, Faculté Segalen in Brest, France on May 12, 2015.
• Free Software and Your Freedom, video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Grainger Auditorium in Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA on March 16, 2015.
• Audio and video recordings of “Free Software in Your Computer and in the Net”, a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Congress Centrum in Hamburg, Germany on December 29, 2014.
• Por una Sociedad Digital Libre (in Spanish), video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Salón de Actos, Facultad de Informática de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madrid, Spain on December 4, 2014.
• Le logiciel libre et ta liberté (in French), audio recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman in Paris, France on November 21, 2014.
• Copyright vs. Community, video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Hoffman Hall, Portland State University in Portland, OR, USA on November 7, 2014.
• Libre Software, Libre Education, video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Butler Library, Columbia University in New York, NY, USA on October 17, 2014.
• Should We Have More Surveillance Than the USSR?, video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at The University of Georgia Chapel in Athens, GA, USA on October 14, 2014.
• Le logiciel libre et ta liberté (in French), video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Esplanade Charles de Gaulle in Montpellier, France on July 06, 2014.
• A Free Digital Society, video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at National Chi Nan University in Puli, Nantou, Taiwan on May 11, 2014.
• Freedom, Malware & Cannibalism, video recording of an interview conducted by Justin Hall in March, 2014.
• Solutions to the Software Patent Problem, a speech given by Richard Stallman at Locatelli Center, Santa Clara University, November, 2012.
• Audio recording of Richard Stallman interviewed by Hacker Public Radio conducted on November 12, 2012
• Welcome to Software Freedom Day, video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at the Free Software Foundation office in Boston, MA, USA on September 11, 2012 for the Iran Software Freedom Day.
• Richard Stallman interviewed by Theodoros Papatheodorou, transcript of an interview conducted in May, 2012.
• Richard Stallman was interviewed by Medhi on May 14 2012.
• Free Software and Your Freedom, video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at XIX SINFO, Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal on February 29, 2012.
• RMS on Alex Jones Show, transcript of an interview conducted on January 19, 2012.
• A Free Digital Society, transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman.
• The Law of Success 2.0: An Interview with Richard Stallman, with Haegwan Kim, posted November 4, 2010.
• Richard Stallman and the free software movement, transcript of an interview with Richard Stallman.
• RMS on Radio New Zealand. Transcript of an interview with Richard Stallman, October 2009.
• Copyright versus community in the age of computer networks: transcript of a keynote by Richard Stallman at the LIANZA conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, on October 12, 2009.
• The Danger of Software Patents, transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman.
• Transcript of an interview with Richard Stallman conducted by Federico Biancuzzi for O'Reilly Media. As well as a wide-ranging discussion of developments in Free Software licencing the interview covers issues including the history and current activities of the FSF, the spread of DMCA-like laws around the world, software patents and the need for free device drivers.
• Transcript of an interview with Richard Stallman for Radio New Zealand, conducted by Kim Hill on August 9, 2008. It covers various topics — free software, the dawn of the free software movement, the fallacy of the term “intellectual property”, Google's services and New Zealand's Copyright laws.
• Free Software Movement: From Genesis to the GNU GPL version 2, an interview with Richard Stallman conducted by Bill Xu (Chinese version also available).
• Video recording of Copyright vs. Community speech with brief text description, given by Richard Stallman on July 5, 2007 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
• Transcript of a speech given by Richard Stallman about free software and the West Bengal government, 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 about the importance of the GPL, for ONLamp.com, 22 September 2005
• Presentation of the goals and philosophy of the GNU operating system by Richard Stallman at the University of Pittsburgh, April 7th 2005
• Richard Stallman's interview with Timothy R. Butler on “The state of GNU/Linux”, 31 March 2005.
• Interview with Richard Stallman by Jeremy Andrews in 2005.
• GNU & The Free Software Foundation, an Engineering Tech Talk at Google by Richard Stallman, 2004
• Transcript of a speech on free software given by Richard M. Stallman at National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, 17 February 2004.
• Richard Stallman's interview with NetEconomie.com [Archived Page] (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.
• Interview with Richard Stallman that took place at the School of Informatics, Edinburgh University, on 27^th May 2004. Originally published at Indymedia, most of the questions are about the relationship between the free software movement and other social movements, and the different values of the “open source” campaign.
• Web page with interviews/audio/video from speeches in Madrid (May 2004) [Archived Page] given by Richard M. Stallman (site is in Spanish)
• Transcript of a speech about copyright law and SCO given by Prof. Eben Moglen at Harvard on 23 February, 2004.
• Transcript of a speech about free software and sustainable development given by Richard M. Stallman at WSIS, 16 July 2003.
• Transcript of a speech about the future of free software 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's interview in 2002, about the hacker community and ethics. This interview is also available in Finnish [Archived].
• Richard Stallman's interview, Perché l'open source non è tutto, in Italian, to the Mytech website, 22 April 2003. (The title reads, Why 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 Linux Expo 2002, CNIT de La Défense (Paris, France), 30th Jan 2002. A transcript of the speech is available.
• 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.
• Richard Stallman's interview about free software and business 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.
• Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks, transcription of a speech by Richard Stallman, 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.
• Transcription (in French) of a speech that Richard Stallman gave in 1998 at the University of Paris.
• English translation of a speech about the history and philosophy of the GNU Project that Georg Greve gave in 1998 at the GNU/Linux Cluster “CLOWN” in Germany (German original).
• BYTE Interview in July 1986 with Richard Stallman about the development of the GNU system.
• A speech that Richard Stallman gave in 1986 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden about the hacker community and the early days of the free software movement.
• Two more recordings of interviews in French are available at audio-video.gnu.org.