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<h2>Speeches and Interviews</h2>

<blockquote><p>
See the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/tedx"
>video recording</a>
(and <a href="https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/RMS_Intro_to_FS_TEDx_Slideshow.odp">slides</a>)
of Richard Stallman's TEDx talk in Geneva, Switzerland on April 7, 2014.
</p></blockquote>

<p>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
<a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org">https://audio-video.gnu.org</a>.</p>

<ul>
 <li><a href="/philosophy/rms-pour-une-societe-numerique-libre.html">
 Pour une société numérique libre</a>, transcript (in French) of a talk by RMS
 at <cite>Médiathèque Aragon</cite> in Choisy-le-Roi, France on April 16, 2016.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2015-07-10--rms--a-free-digital-society">A Free Digital Society</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Gerthsen-Hörsaal
   in Karlsruhe, Germany on July 10, 2015.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2015-05-27--rms--chania--greece">Video</a> and
   <a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/#2015-05-27--rms--chania--greece">audio</a>
   recordings of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at the Technical University of Crete
   in Chani&aacute;, Greece on May 27, 2015.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2015-05-12--rms--logiciels-libres-et-l-education">Logiciels Libres et l'éducation (in French)</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Amphi Guilcher, Faculté Segalen
   in Brest, France on May 12, 2015.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2015-03-16--rms--free-software-and-your-freedom">Free Software and Your Freedom</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Grainger Auditorium
   in Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA on March 16, 2015.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/#2014-12-29--rms--freedom-in-your-computer-and-in-the-net">Audio</a>
   and
   <a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2014-12-29--rms--freedom-in-your-computer-and-in-the-net">video</a>
   recordings of &ldquo;Free Software in Your Computer and in the Net&rdquo;,
   a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Congress Centrum
   in Hamburg, Germany on December 29, 2014.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2014-12-04--rms--por-una-sociedad-digital-libre">Por una Sociedad Digital Libre (in Spanish)</a>,
   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.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/#2014-11-21--rms--internet-le-logiciel-libre-et-l-entreprise-libertes-sans-frontiere">Le logiciel libre et ta liberté (in French)</a>,
   audio recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman
   in Paris, France on November 21, 2014.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2014-11-07--rms--copyright-vs-community">Copyright vs. Community</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Hoffman Hall, Portland State University
   in Portland, OR, USA on November 7, 2014.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2014-10-17-libre-software-libre-education">Libre Software, Libre Education</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Butler Library, Columbia University
   in New York, NY, USA on October 17, 2014.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2014-10-14--stallman--uga">Should We Have More Surveillance Than the USSR?</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at The University of Georgia Chapel
   in Athens, GA, USA on October 14, 2014.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2014-07-06--rms--le-logiciel-libre-et-ta-liberte">Le logiciel libre et ta liberté (in French)</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at Esplanade Charles de Gaulle
   in Montpellier, France on July 06, 2014.</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2014-05-11--rms--a-free-digital-society">A Free Digital Society</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at National Chi Nan University
   in Puli, Nantou, Taiwan on May 11, 2014.</li>

 <li><a href="https://archive.org/details/RichardStallmanInterviewByJustinHall201403">
    Freedom, Malware &amp; Cannibalism</a>, video recording of an interview
    conducted by Justin Hall in March, 2014.</li>

 <li><a href="/philosophy/rms-patents.html">
  Solutions to the Software Patent Problem</a>, a speech given
  by Richard Stallman at Locatelli Center, Santa Clara University,
  November, 2012.</li>

 <li><a href="http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1116">
   Audio recording of Richard Stallman interviewed by Hacker
   Public Radio</a> conducted on November 12, 2012</li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2012-RMS-SFD-Iran">Welcome to Software Freedom Day</a>,
   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.</li>

 <li><a href="/philosophy/ough-interview.html">Richard Stallman
   interviewed by Theodoros Papatheodorou</a>, transcript of an
   interview conducted in May, 2012.</li>

<li>Richard Stallman was <a href="http://liberte-info.net/interviews/richard_stallman.html"> interviewed by Medhi on May 14 2012.</a></li>

 <li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/#2012-02-29--rms--free-software-and-your-freedom">Free Software and Your Freedom</a>,
   video recording of a talk given by Richard M. Stallman at XIX SINFO,
   Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal on February 29, 2012.</li>

 <li><a href="/philosophy/rms-aj.html">RMS on Alex Jones Show</a>,
   transcript of an interview conducted on January 19, 2012.</li>

 <li><a href="/philosophy/free-digital-society.html">A Free Digital
Society</a>, transcript of a talk by <a
href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>.</li>

 <li><a href="/philosophy/the-law-of-success-2.html">The Law of
Success 2.0: An Interview with Richard Stallman</a>, with Haegwan Kim,
posted November 4, 2010.</li>

 <li><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45532">Richard Stallman and the free software movement</a>,
   transcript of an interview with
  <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>.</li>

 <li><a href="/philosophy/rms-on-radio-nz.html">RMS on Radio New Zealand</a>.
   Transcript of an interview with Richard Stallman, October 2009.</li>

 <li><a href="/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html"
  id="StallmanTalkLSM">Copyright versus community in the age of
  computer networks</a>: transcript of a keynote by Richard Stallman at
  the LIANZA conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, on October 12,
  2009.</li>

 <li><a href="/philosophy/danger-of-software-patents.html">The Danger
  of Software Patents</a>, transcript of a talk by
  <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>.</li>

  <li><a href="http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/stallman-discusses-free-softwa.html">Transcript of an interview with Richard Stallman</a> 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.</li>

  <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20111114124839/http://nb.inode.co.nz/articles/rmsrnz/index.html">Transcript
  of an interview</a> with Richard Stallman for Radio New Zealand,
  conducted by Kim Hill on August 9, 2008.  It covers various topics
  &mdash; free software, the dawn of the free software movement, the
  fallacy of the term &ldquo;intellectual property&rdquo;, Google's
  services and New Zealand's Copyright laws.</li>

  <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090516000904/http://www.zeuux.org/philosophy/billxu-rms-fsm-ancient-to-gplv2.html">
  Free Software Movement: From Genesis to the GNU GPL version 2</a>,
  an interview with Richard Stallman conducted by Bill Xu
  (<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100621084138/http://www.zeuux.org/philosophy/billxu-rms-fsm-ancient-to-gplv2.cn.html">Chinese
  version</a> also available).</li>

  <li><a
  href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/copy_vs_comm.ogg">Video
  recording of Copyright vs. Community speech</a> with <a
  href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/copy_vs_comm.txt">brief
  text description</a>, given by Richard Stallman on July 5, 2007
  in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.</li>

  <li><a href="/philosophy/rms-kol.html">Transcript of a speech</a>
  given by <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>
  about free software and the West Bengal government, in Kolkata
  (formerly Calcutta) on August, 2006.</li>

  <li><a href="http://archive.org/details/QuestionsPleaseOnFreeSoftware">Jonathan
  Roberts interviews Richard Stallman and others</a> on free software.</li>

  <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090907065901/http://www.zeuux.org/law/billxu-rms-drm.html">Bill
  Xu interviews Richard Stallman on DRM</a>. You can also read
  it <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100621070721/http://www.zeuux.org/law/billxu-rms-drm.cn.html">in
  Chinese</a>.</li>

  <li>Eben Moglen, <a href="http://punkcast.com/964/">Free
  Software and Free Media</a>, at the Jefferson Market Library
  in New York, New York, May 3, 2006 for the Metropolitan NY Chapter
  of the Internet Society</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/stallman201205.htm">
      Richard Stallman interviewed</a> by Justin Podur on Free
      Software as a Social Movement, 01 December 2005</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/22/gpl3.html">Richard Stallman
      interviewed</a> by Federico Biancuzzi about the importance of
      the GPL, for ONLamp.com, 22 September 2005</li>

  <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180628165142/http://wm-eddie.info/rms.html">Presentation of the goals
     and philosophy of the GNU operating system</a> by
     <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a> at the
     University of Pittsburgh, April 7th 2005 </li>

  <li><a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>'s
        <a  href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050517082933/http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=353">
    interview</a> with Timothy R. Butler on &ldquo;The state of
    GNU/Linux&rdquo;, 31 March 2005.</li>

  <li><a href="/philosophy/rms-kernel-trap-interview.html">Interview
  with Richard Stallman</a> by Jeremy Andrews in 2005.</li>

  <li><a href="/philosophy/google-engineering-talk.html">GNU &amp; The Free
    Software Foundation</a>, an Engineering Tech Talk at Google by
    <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>, 2004</li>

  <li><a href="/philosophy/nit-india.html">Transcript of a speech</a>
     on free software given by <a href="http://www.stallman.org">
     Richard M. Stallman</a> at National Institute of Technology,
     Trichy, India, 17 February 2004.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard
   Stallman</a>'s <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050310003435/http://www.neteconomie.com/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/article/20041208104640">
   interview with NetEconomie.com [Archived Page]</a> (In French) 10 December
   2004</li>

  <li><a href="/philosophy/patent-practice-panel.html">Transcript of a panel
    presentation</a>, <cite>New developments in patent practice:
    assessing the risks and cost of portfolio licensing and
    hold-ups</cite>, 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</li>

<li><a href="http://www.ariel.com.au/a/rms-unsw.html">Synopsis of a
   speech</a> given by <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard
   M. Stallman</a> about software patents on 14 October 2004.</li>

<li><a href="/philosophy/rms-interview-edinburgh.html">Interview</a>
   with Richard Stallman that took place at the School of Informatics,
   Edinburgh University, on 27<sup>th</sup> 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 &ldquo;open
   source&rdquo; campaign.</li>

<li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040603002019/http://laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es/~fsanchez/rms/" >
    Web page with interviews/audio/video from speeches in Madrid (May 2004) [Archived Page]</a>
    given by <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard M. Stallman</a> (site is in Spanish)
    </li>

<li><a href="/philosophy/moglen-harvard-speech-2004.html" >Transcript
    of a speech</a> about copyright law and SCO given
    by <a href="http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/" >Prof. Eben
    Moglen</a> at Harvard on 23 February, 2004.</li>

<li><a href="/philosophy/wsis-2003.html">Transcript of a speech</a>
   about free software and sustainable development given
   by <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard M. Stallman</a> at
   WSIS, 16 July 2003.</li>

<li><a href="/philosophy/rieti.html">Transcript of a speech</a> about
  the future of free software given
  by <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard M. Stallman</a>, 21
  April 2003.</li>

<li><a
href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/bradley-m-kuhn-software-freedom-and-the-gnu-generation-07-2002.ogg">
    Audio recording of a speech, <cite>Software Freedom and the GNU
    Generation</cite>, given by Bradley M. Kuhn</a> 22 April
    2003.</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-cambridgeuni-england2002.ogg">Audio
    recording of a speech, <cite>Software Patents:Obstacles to
    software development</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at the
    University of Cambridge, England</a> 25th March 2002.
    A <a href="/philosophy/software-patents.html">transcript of the
    speech</a> is also available.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>'s interview in 2002, about <a href="/philosophy/rms-hack.html">
    the hacker community and ethics</a>. This interview is also <a
    href="http://web.archive.org/web/20100903110335/http://www.uta.fi/~fiteva/rms_int_fi.html">available
    in Finnish</a> [Archived].</li>
<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard Stallman</a>'s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030314184246/http://www.mytech.it/mytech/internet/art006010045404.jsp">
    interview, <cite>Perch&eacute; l'open source non &egrave; tutto</cite>, in Italian,</a> to the Mytech website, 22 April 2003.  (The title reads, <cite>Why Open Source is not all</cite>.)</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-qmul-london2002.ogg">Audio
    recording of a speech, <cite>Copyright vs Community in the age of
    computer Networks</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at Queen
    Mary University of London, England</a> 12th Feb 2002.</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/francais/rms-speech-paris-30-jan-2002.ogg">Audio
  recording in French of a speech, <cite>l'&eacute;thique du
  syst&egrave;me GNU/Linux et de la communaut&eacute; des logiciels
  libres, les t&acirc;ches &agrave; accomplir et les risques &agrave;
  envisager</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at Linux Expo 2002</a>, CNIT
  de La D&eacute;fense (Paris, France), 30th Jan 2002.
  A <a href="/philosophy/2002-linuxexpo-paris.fr.html">transcript of the
  speech</a> is available.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.april.org/actions/rms/20011120/stream.html">Audio recordings and a partial transcript</a> of the conference given by <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard M. Stallman</a> to the French National Assembly on 20th November 2001.</li>

<li><a href="/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html">Transcript of the speech, <cite>The Danger of Software Patents</cite></a> by <a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard M. Stallman</a> given at Government Model Engineering College, India on 24th July 2001.  <!-- (Content is removed, the site shows 'Page Not Found' - 25-Mar-2011 - shailesh) Also, the MEC has posted an <a href="http://www.mec.ac.in/events/rms/">audio recording and transcript</a> at their website.--></li>

<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org">Richard
    Stallman</a>'s <a href="/philosophy/luispo-rms-interview.html">
    interview</a> about free software and business with Louis
    Suarez-Potts in May of 2001.</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-nyu2001.ogg">Audio
    recording of a speech, <cite>Free Software: Freedom and
    Cooperation</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at New York
    University</a>.
    A <a href="/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.html">transcript of the
    speech</a> is also available.</li>

<li><a href="/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html">Transcript of
    a speech, <cite>Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer
    Networks</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at MIT</a>.</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-mit2001.ogg">Audio
    recording of a speech, <cite>Copyright and Globalization in the
    Age of Computer Networks</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
    MIT</a>.</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-arsdigita2001.ogg">Audio
    recording of a speech, <cite>The Free Software Movement and the
    GNU/Linux Operating System</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
    ArsDigita University</a>.</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-slovenia-2000.ogg">Audio
    recording of a speech, <cite>The Free Software Movement and the
    GNU/Linux Operating System</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
    Auditorium Smelt, Ljubljana, Slovenia</a>.</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-linuxtag2000.ogg">Audio
    recording of a speech, <cite>The Free Software Movement and the
    GNU/Linux Operating System</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
    LinuxTag 2000</a>.</li>

<li><a href="/philosophy/copyright-versus-community-2000.html">Copyright 
  versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks</a>, transcription of a
  speech by Richard Stallman, 2000.</li>

<li><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-speech-cglug2000.ogg">Audio
    recording of a speech, <cite>The Free Software Movement and the
    GNU/Linux Operating System</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
    the University of Cincinnati</a>.</li>

  <li><a href="http://www.april.org/actions/rms/10111998/texte.html">Transcription (in French)</a> of a
       speech that
       <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a>
       gave in 1998 at the University of
       Paris.</li>
  <li><a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.en.html">English translation of a
       speech</a> about the history and philosophy of the GNU Project
       that Georg Greve gave in 1998 at the GNU/Linux Cluster
       &ldquo;CLOWN&rdquo; in Germany
       (<a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.de.html">German
       original</a>).</li>
  <li><a href="/gnu/byte-interview.html">BYTE Interview</a>
       in July 1986 with
       <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a> about
       the development of the GNU system.</li>
  <li>A <a href="/philosophy/stallman-kth.html">speech</a>
       that <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a>
       gave in 1986 at the Royal Institute of Technology in
       Sweden about the hacker community and the early days of the
       free software movement.</li>
   
<li>Two more recordings of <a
href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/francais">interviews in French</a>
are available at audio-video.gnu.org.</li>
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