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<h2>Speeches and Interviews</h2>
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<div class="introduction">
<p class="important">See the <a
href="//www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-society/">
video recording</a> (and <a
href="//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>
<hr class="no-display" />

<p>Most recordings of speeches and other FSF and GNU Project events
are at <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org">audio-video.gnu.org</a>:</p>

<div class="button c">
 <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/audio/">Audio recordings</a>&nbsp;
 <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/">Video recordings</a>
</div>

<p>Listed below in reverse chronological order are speeches and
interviews for which full or partial transcriptions are available, and
some of those hosted on websites other than audio-video.gnu.org. Except
as otherwise stated, they were given by Richard Stallman. If you wish to
contribute a transcription, please write to
&lt;<a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">webmasters@gnu.org</a>&gt;.</p>
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<h3 id="speeches" class="inline-block">Speeches&nbsp;
<small>[<a href="#interviews">Skip to Interviews</a>]</small></h3>

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 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 16, 2016</span>
  <span class="lang">[in French]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-pour-une-societe-numerique-libre.fr.html"
  hreflang="fr">
  <i>Pour une société numérique libre</i></a>
  [For a free digital society]</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the Médiathèque Aragon in Choisy-le-Roi,
  France</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/2016-04-16--rms--pour-une-societe-numerique-libre--choisy-le-roi--france.ogv"
  hreflang="fr">video</a></p>
 </li>
 
 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">August 3, 2013</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="//www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20130803-berlin">
  Induction into the Internet Hall of Fame</a> &mdash; Acceptance speech</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/2013-08-03--rms--berlin--internet-hall-of-fame.webm">
  video</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">March 22, 2013</span>
  <span class="lang">[in French]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/vers-une-societe-numerique-libre.fr.html"
  hreflang="fr">
  <i>Vers une société numérique libre</i></a>
  [Towards a free digital society]</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the University of Poitiers, France</span></p>

  <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160222040519/https://uptv.univ-poitiers.fr/program/richard-stallman-vers-une-societe-numerique-libre/video/3736/index/index.html"
  hreflang="fr">video</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">November 2012</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-patents.html">
  Solutions to the Software Patent Problem</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the Locatelli Center, Santa Clara
  University</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/keynote-what-is-the-problem.webm">
  video</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">October 19, 2011</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/free-digital-society.html">
  A Free Digital Society - What Makes Digital Inclusion Good or Bad?</a>
  </span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at Sciences Po Paris</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/stallman-sciencespo-freesociety.webm">
  video</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">October 12, 2009</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/copyright-versus-community.html">
  Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the LIANZA conference in Christchurch,
  New Zealand</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/audio/Richard_Stallman_LIANZA_09.ogg">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">October 8, 2009</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/danger-of-software-patents.html">
  The Danger of Software Patents</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at Victoria University of Wellington,
  New Zealand</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/audio/patentsvuw2009.ogg">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>
 
 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">July 15, 2008</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/education/misc/rms-education-es-transcription.txt" hreflang="es">
  Free Software and Education</a>, six-minutes speech</span>
  <span class="lang">[in Spanish]</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the FKFT2008 Conference, Barcelona,
  Spain</span></p>

  <p class="descr"><a
  href="/education/misc/edu-misc.html#transcription-rms-education">
  Transcriptions</a> and
  <a href="/education/misc/edu-misc.html#subtitles-rms-education">
  subtitles</a> in several languages.</p>
  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-education-es.ogv" hreflang="es">
  Original video</a> in Spanish (no subtitles)<br />
  Videos with embedded subtitles in
  <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-education-es-high-sub.pt-br.ogv">
  Brazilian Portuguese</a>,&nbsp;
  <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-education-es-high-sub.nl.ogv">
  Dutch</a>,&nbsp;
  <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-education-es-high-sub.en.ogv">
  English</a>,&nbsp;
  <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-education-es-high-sub.fr.ogv">
  French</a>,&nbsp;
  <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-education-es-high-sub.it.ogv">
  Italian</a>,&nbsp;
  <a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-education-es-high-sub.es.ogv">
  Spanish</a></p>
 </li>
 
 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">September 24, 2007</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="rms-pavia-doctoral-address.html">
  Pavia Doctoral Address: Innovation Is Secondary When Freedom Is at Stake</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the University of Pavia, Italy</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 3, 2007</span>
  <span class="lang">[in French]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210417172347/https://www.librealire.org/conference-de-richard-stallman-a-l-enst-de-paris">
  <i>Logiciel libre : les droits de l'homme de l'utilisateur</i></a> (Free software: the human rights of the user)</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at Télécom Paris (ENST), France</span></p>
  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/Richard_Stallman/fr/RMS03042007.theora.ogg"
  hreflang="fr">
  video</a>&nbsp;
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151018033034/http://media.april.org/video/RMS-ENST-20070403/RMS03042007.ogg"
  hreflang="fr">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">August 2006</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-kol.html">
  Free Software and the West Bengal Government</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta)</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">May 3, 2006</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Free_Software_and_Free_Media">
  Free Software and Free Media</a>
  (by Eben Moglen)</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the Jefferson Market Library in New York, for the
  Metropolitan NY Chapter of the Internet Society</span></p>

  <p><a href="https://punkcast.com/964/">
  video</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 7, 2005</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  Goals and Philosophy of Free Software and the GNU Project</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the University of Pittsburgh</span></p>

  <p class="descr">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180628165142/http://wm-eddie.info/rms.html">
  introduction</a> (no transcript of the speech)
  <br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160329115124/http://wm-eddie.info/20050407_RMS.ogg">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">October 14, 2004</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  The Danger of Software Patents</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the University of New South Wales, Sydney,
  Australia</span></p>

  <p class="descr">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210411070158/http://www.ariel.com.au/a/rms-unsw.html">
  detailed synopsis</a> by Patrick Jordan (no transcript of the speech)
  <br /><a href="https://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/dangers_of_software_patents-Richard_Stallman-nsw_04.ogg">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">June 11, 2004</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/google-engineering-talk.html">
  GNU &amp; The Free Software Foundation</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">an Engineering Tech Talk at Google</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">February 23, 2004</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/moglen-harvard-speech-2004.html">
  Copyright Law and SCO</a>
  (by Eben Moglen)</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at Harvard</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">February 17, 2004</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/nit-india.html">
  Free Software</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the National Institute of Technology,
  Tiruchirappalli, India</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">July 16, 2003</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/wsis-2003.html">
  Free Software and Sustainable Development</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the World Summit on the Information
  Society</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 21, 2003</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rieti.html">
  The Future of Jiyuna (Free) Software</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and
  Industry (RIETI), Japanese Ministry of Economy</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">March 25, 2002</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/software-patents.html">
  Software Patents - Obstacles to Software Development</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the University of Cambridge Computer
  Laboratory</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/audio/#patent-cambridge-2002-03-25">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">January 30, 2002</span>
  <span class="lang">[in French]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/2002-linuxexpo-paris.fr.html"
  hreflang="fr">
  <i>L'éthique du système GNU/Linux et de la communauté des logiciels libres,
  les tâches à accomplir et les risques à envisager</i></a>
  [Ethics of the GNU/Linux system and the free software community, pending
  tasks, and foreseeable risks]</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at Linux Expo 2002, CNIT de La Défense, Paris,
  France</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/audio/francais/rms-speech-paris-30-jan-2002.ogg"
  hreflang="fr">audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">November 20, 2001</span>
  <span class="lang">[in French]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  Free Software and Government</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the French National Assembly</span></p>

  <p class="descr">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210414194638/https://www.april.org/actions/rms/20011120/"
  hreflang="fr">transcript of introductory speech by Noël Mamère</a>
  <br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220321194812/https://www.april.org/actions/rms/20011120/stream.html"
  hreflang="fr">audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">July 24, 2001</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html">
  The Danger of Software Patents</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at Government Model Engineering College, Kerala,
  India</span></p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-mec-india.ogg">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">May 29, 2001</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.html">
  Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at New York University</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 19, 2001</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html">
  Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at MIT in the Communications Forum</span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">July 2000</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/copyright-versus-community-2000.html">
  Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks</a></span></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">December 5, 1998</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.html">
  History and Philosophy of the GNU Project</a>
  (by Georg Greve)</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the University of Paderborn, Germany</span></p>

  <p class="descr">The speech was given
  <a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.de.html" hreflang="de">
  <span class="lang">in German</span></a>, and subsequently translated to
  <a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.en.html">English</a> by the author.</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">November 10, 1998</span>
  <span class="lang">[in French]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171012122917/http://april.org/files/documents/html/texte.html"
  hreflang="fr">
  <i>Logiciel libre</i></a> [Free software]</span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at Paris 8 University, France</span></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171012124221/http://april.org/actions/rms/19981110/photos/">
  photos</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">October 30, 1986</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/stallman-kth.html">
  The hacker community and the early days of the free software movement</a>
  </span>
  <br /><span class="descr">at the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of
  Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden</span></p>
 </li>
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  <p><span class="date-tag">September 2018</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii113/articles/richard-stallman-talking-to-the-mailman.pdf">
  Talking to the Mailman</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Rob Lucas</p>

  <p class="descr">(published in the <cite>New Left Review</cite>,
  issue&nbsp;113)</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">March 18, 2014</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  Freedom, Malware &amp; Cannibalism</span>
  <br />conducted by Justin Hall at the Internet Archive in San Francisco</p>

  <p class="descr">
  <a href="https://archive.org/details/RichardStallmanInterviewByJustinHall201403">
  introduction</a> (no transcript of the interview)</p>
  <p><a href="https://archive.org/download/RichardStallmanInterviewByJustinHall201403/Richard%20Stallman%20Interview%20by%20Justin%20Hall%202014-03.ogv">
  video</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">November 12, 2012</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  Interview on Hacker Public Radio</span>
  <br />conducted by pokey</p>

  <p class="descr">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220309092526/https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1116">
  introduction and comments</a> (no transcript of the interview)
  <br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191220202249/https://hackerpublicradio.org/local/hpr1116.ogg">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">May 2012</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/ough-interview.html">
  Richard Stallman: A Legend of Informatics</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Theodoros Papatheodorou for <cite>OUGH!</cite></p>

  <p class="descr">(originally published <span class="lang">in Greek</span>,
  in two parts:
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210119115640/https://www.ough.gr/index.php?mod=articles&amp;op=view&amp;id=753"
  hreflang="el">Part&nbsp;I</a>,
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210422231305/https://www.ough.gr/index.php?mod=articles&amp;op=view&amp;id=839"
  hreflang="el">Part&nbsp;II</a>)</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">May 14, 2012</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220320064515/https://liberte-info.net/interviews/richard_stallman.html">
  The US is democratic in form, but its democracy is so sick that it
  hardly functions</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Mehdi for <cite>Liberté Info</cite></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">January 19, 2012</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-aj.html">
  Richard Stallman Interviewed The Day After SOPA/PIPA Global Protests</a></span></p>

  <p class="descr">Includes comments by Stallman about the SOPA and PIPA 
  copyright bills and the protests, which the GNU Project and the Free Software 
  Foundation <a 
  href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120118201902/http://www.gnu.org/">
  joined</a>.</p>

  <p><a href="https://inv.bp.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=fwz_vMdxmDU">
  video</a> (does not include the interviewer's introduction)</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">November 4, 2010</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/the-law-of-success-2.html">
  The Law of Success 2.0: An Interview with Richard Stallman</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Haegwan Kim</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">September 28, 2010</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211026085549/https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/richard-stallman-and-free-software-movement">
  Richard Stallman and the Free Software Movement</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Greg Adamson for <cite>Green Left</cite></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">October 2009</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-on-radio-nz.html">
  RMS on Radio NZ - October 2009</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Kim Hill for Radio New Zealand</p>

  <p class="descr">Main topics: surveillance, &ldquo;war on terrorism,&rdquo;
  free trade treaties, DRM, supporting artists, and more.</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 13, 2009</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090430053331/http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/04/stallman-discusses-free-softwa.html">
  Stallman Discusses Free Software and GPLv3</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Federico Biacuzzi for <cite>O’Reilly Media</cite></p>

  <p class="descr">As well as a wide-ranging discussion of developments in free
  software licensing, 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.</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">September 28, 2008</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://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> (v.1.8)</span>
  <br />conducted by Bill Xu for <cite>Zeuux</cite></p>

  <p class="descr">(also published
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100621084138/http://www.zeuux.org/philosophy/billxu-rms-fsm-ancient-to-gplv2.cn.html"
  hreflang="zh-cn"><span class="lang">in Chinese</span></a>)</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">August 9, 2008</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111114124839/http://nb.inode.co.nz/articles/rmsrnz/index.html">
  RMS on Radio NZ - August 2008</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Kim Hill for Radio New Zealand</p>

  <p class="descr">It covers various topics: 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.</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">July 7, 2008</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090117072920/http://www.zeuux.org/law/billxu-rms-drm.html">
  Join the FSF to Eliminate DRM</a> (v.1.5)</span>
  <br />conducted by Bill Xu for <cite>Zeuux</cite></p>

  <p class="descr">(also published
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100621070721/http://www.zeuux.org/law/billxu-rms-drm.cn.html"
  hreflang="zh-cn"><span class="lang">in Chinese</span></a>)</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 13, 2008</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  Questions Please on Free Software</span><br />
  interview of Richard Stallman and others by Jonathan Roberts</p>

  <p class="descr">
  <a href="https://archive.org/details/QuestionsPleaseOnFreeSoftware">
  introduction</a> (no transcript of the interview)</p>
  <p><a href="https://archive.org/download/QuestionsPleaseOnFreeSoftware/Questions_please_1.mp3">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">December 01, 2005</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220310132952/https://www.countercurrents.org/stallman201205.htm">
  Free Software as a Social Movement</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Justin Podur for <cite>Countercurrents</cite></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">September 22, 2005</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051001021518/http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/22/gpl3.html">
  The GNU GPL Is Here to Stay</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Federico Biancuzzi for <cite>ONLamp.com</cite></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">March 31, 2005</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071006051044/http://www.ofb.biz/article.pl?sid=353">
  Stallman on the State of GNU/Linux</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Timothy R. Butler for <cite>Open for Business</cite></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">January 4, 2005</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-kernel-trap-interview.html">
  Interview for <cite>KernelTrap</cite></a></span>
  <br />conducted by Jeremy Andrews</p>

  <p class="descr">It covers topics such as Stallman's background as a programmer,
  the founding of the GNU Project and the FSF and Stallman's transition
  to activism, the naming controversies, the Hurd, Emacs, whether free
  software affects unemployment and low wages, some new technologies,
  and more.</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">December 10, 2004</span>
  <span class="lang">[in French]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050310003435/http://www.neteconomie.com/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/article/20041208104640"
  hreflang="fr">
  <i>Richard « GNU » Stallman précise son point de vue sur les brevets
  logiciels</i></a> [Richard &ldquo;GNU&rdquo; Stallman clarifies his views
  on software patents]</span>
  <br />conducted by Ariane Beky for <cite>NetEconomie</cite></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">May 27, 2004</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-interview-edinburgh.html">
  Free Software, Free Society!</a></span><br />
  at the Edinburgh University Informatics Colloquium</p>

  <p class="descr">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.</p>

  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/audio/rms-interview-edinburgh-11k-270504.ogg">
  audio</a></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 27, 2004</span>
  <span class="lang">[in Spanish]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220320232131/https://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2004/04/27/entrevistas/1083074999.html"
  hreflang="es">
  <i>La única manera de ser libre es rechazar los programas propietarios</i></a>
  [The only way to be free is to refuse proprietary software]</span>
  <br />conducted by Pablo Romero</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">August 13, 2003</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071017093941/http://www.ofb.biz//article.pl?sid=260">
  GNU Questions: RMS on SCO, Distributions, DRM</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Timothy R. Butler for <cite>Open for Business</cite></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">April 22, 2003</span>
  <span class="lang">[in Italian]</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030314184246/http://www.mytech.it/mytech/internet/art006010045404.jsp"
  hreflang="it">
  <i>Perché l'open source non è tutto</i></a> [Why Open Source is not all]</span>
  <br />conducted by Antonio Volpon for <cite>Mytech</cite></p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">2002</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/rms-hack.html">
  The Hacker Community and Ethics</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Tere Vadén</p>

  <p class="descr">(also published
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100903110335/http://www.uta.fi/~fiteva/rms_int_fi.html"
  hreflang="fi"><span class="lang">in Finnish</span></a>)</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">May 2001</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/philosophy/luispo-rms-interview.html">
  Free Software and Business</a></span>
  <br />conducted by Louis Suarez-Potts</p>
 </li>

 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">July 1986</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/gnu/byte-interview.html">
  Development of the GNU System</a></span>
  <br />conducted by David Betz and Jon Edwards for <cite>BYTE</cite></p>
 </li>
 
 <li>
  <p><span class="date-tag">November 9-11, 1984</span><br />
  <span class="speech-title">
  <a href="/gnu/first-hackers-conference-1984.html">
  Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference</a></span>
  <br /><span class="descr">in Sausalito, California</span></p>

  <p class="descr">Short excerpts of Richard Stallman speaking and interviewed.
  It was at this conference that Stallman first publicly and explicitly stated 
  the idea that <em>all software should be free</em>, and the ethical 
  principles that set the foundations of the free software movement</p>
  
  <p><a href="//audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-at-first-hackers-conference-1984.webm">
  video</a></p>
 </li>
</ul>
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