30 Minute Video Introduction by Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman recently made a 30 minute introduction to free software, at http://db.hbcse.tifr.res.in/rms.ogg - this file can be played with VLC on any computer.
This is especially noteworthy because at the end he outlines his current strategy for the free software movement:
When the GNU project started, it was unclear if the free software community could make a large collection of software at all. Today we have two different free OS, two different free desktop systems, two office productivity suites, and thousands of other tools. So we can have all the free software we need, we can develop the software people need, and we’re within an order of magnitude of doing the whole job. Whats not certain today is if powerful wealthy companies will let us. To continue, we now need to do political organising, as well as software development.
(paraphrased)
(Also: I ought to look into mvembed for embedding ogg theora video into pages sometime…)
The 30 Minute Video Introduction by Richard Stallman by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
June 27, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized
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