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Free Software Song at FSF30.webm 6 min 18 s, 640 × 360; 32.76 MB Free Software Song Bulgarian Style.ogg 3 min 8 s; 3.36 MB Free SoftWare Song RMS.ogg 1 min 48 s; 319 KB.
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Speeches about our Philosophy
Audio Speeches from 2017
El software libre y tu libertad (Santa Fe, Argentina)
By: Richard Stallman
Language: Spanish
Duration: Festram: 2 hours 34 minutes; Legislatura: 1 hour 40 minutes
Date: Jun 07, 2017
Location: Santa Fe, Argentina
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Language: Spanish
Duration: Festram: 2 hours 34 minutes; Legislatura: 1 hour 40 minutes
Date: Jun 07, 2017
Location: Santa Fe, Argentina
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Audio Files (Ogg/Vorbis):
- Festram (154 MB)
- Legislatura (99 MB)
Audio Speeches from 2016
Le logiciel libre et les libertés numériques (Nantes, France)
By: Richard Stallman
Language: French
Duration: 2 hours 21 minutes
Date: Apr 15, 2016
Location: Amphithéâtre, ENSA Nantes, 6 Quai François Mitterrand, 44000 Nantes, France
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Language: French
Duration: 2 hours 21 minutes
Date: Apr 15, 2016
Location: Amphithéâtre, ENSA Nantes, 6 Quai François Mitterrand, 44000 Nantes, France
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Audio Files:
- lossy (smaller file) 80Kbit/s Opus Ogg (88MB)
- lossless (larger file) FLAC (634MB)
Logiciel libre et société libre (Quebec City, Canada)
By: Richard Stallman
Language: French
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes
Date: Mar 16, 2016
Location: Grand Salon (local 2244), Pavillon Maurice-Pollack, Université Laval (ITIS) Quebec City, Canada
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Language: French
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes
Date: Mar 16, 2016
Location: Grand Salon (local 2244), Pavillon Maurice-Pollack, Université Laval (ITIS) Quebec City, Canada
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (54MB)
Audio Speeches from 2015
What is Free Software? (Chania, Greece)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Chania, Greece - Technical University of Crete
Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Location: Chania, Greece - Technical University of Crete
Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (61MB)
Audio Speeches from 2014
Free Software in Your Computer and in the Net (Hamburg, Germany)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: 31C3 - 31st Chaos Communication Congress
Location: Hamburg, Germany - Saal 1, Congress Centrum, Am Dammtor / Marseiller Str., 20355 Hamburg, Germany
Date: Dec 29, 2014
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Event: 31C3 - 31st Chaos Communication Congress
Location: Hamburg, Germany - Saal 1, Congress Centrum, Am Dammtor / Marseiller Str., 20355 Hamburg, Germany
Date: Dec 29, 2014
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Audio File:Opus Ogg (45MB)
Internet, le logiciel libre et l'entreprise, libertés sans frontière (Paris, France)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: 9 avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 75008 Paris, France
Date: Nov 21, 2014
Language: French
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Location: 9 avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 75008 Paris, France
Date: Nov 21, 2014
Language: French
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Audio File: Ogg/Speex (12MB)
Audio Speeches from 2013
A Free Digital Society (Lincoln, UK)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Jackson Lecture Theatre, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Location: Jackson Lecture Theatre, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (32MB)
Anniversaire des 30 ans du projet GNU(Saint-Denis, France)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: Celebrating GNU's thirtieth anniversary in France
Location: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Saint Denis, France
Date: September 21, 2013
Language: French
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Event: Celebrating GNU's thirtieth anniversary in France
Location: Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Saint Denis, France
Date: September 21, 2013
Language: French
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (198MB)
El movimiento del software libre(Ciudad Madero, Mexico)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, Ciudad Madero, Mexico
Date: May 29, 2013
Language: Spanish
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Location: Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Madero, Ciudad Madero, Mexico
Date: May 29, 2013
Language: Spanish
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (36MB)
Audio Speeches from 2012
Audio Speeches from 2011
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (Sheffield, UK)
Free Software Song Ogg Free
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Sheffield University, UK
Date: March 5th, 2011
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Location: Sheffield University, UK
Date: March 5th, 2011
Copyright (C) 2011 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio Files:
- Talk: Ogg/Vorbis (121MB)
- Q&A: Ogg/Vorbis (55MB)
Qu'est ce que c'est le logiciel libre ?(Lille, France)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Institut d'Études Politiques de Lille, Lille, France
Date: February 23, 2011
Language: French
Recorded by F. & Chtinux
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Location: Institut d'Études Politiques de Lille, Lille, France
Date: February 23, 2011
Language: French
Recorded by F. & Chtinux
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (343MB)
Richard Stallman on l'écho des gnous(Lille, France)
By: Richard Stallman
Venue: L'écho des gnous radio show on Radio Campus, Lille, France
Date: February 23, 2011
Language: French
Recorded by F. & Chtinux
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Venue: L'écho des gnous radio show on Radio Campus, Lille, France
Date: February 23, 2011
Language: French
Recorded by F. & Chtinux
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Audio Files:
- Interview: Ogg/Vorbis (32MB)
- Jingle, remixed by Tim Oxy: Ogg/Vorbis (1.3MB)
- Free software song: Ogg/Vorbis (4.5MB)
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (Delft, Netherlands)
By: Richard M Stallman
Location: Delft, Netherlands
Date: February 21st, 2011
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Location: Delft, Netherlands
Date: February 21st, 2011
Copyright (C) 2011 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (48 MiB)
Audio Speeches from 2010
Free Software in Ethics and in Practice (useR2010)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: The R User Conference 2010
Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Date: July 20-23, 2010
Copyright (C) 2010 Richard M. Stallman
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Event: The R User Conference 2010
Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Date: July 20-23, 2010
Copyright (C) 2010 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio Files:
- Talk: Ogg/Vorbis
- Q&A: Ogg/Vorbis | Text of the questions
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (West Virginia University)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Room 113 of the Mineral Resources Building on the West Virginia University Evansdale campus
Date: February 17th, 2010
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Location: Room 113 of the Mineral Resources Building on the West Virginia University Evansdale campus
Date: February 17th, 2010
Copyright (C) 2010 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (68MB)
Copyright vs. Public (Bern, Switzerland)
By: Richard Stallman
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes
Date: Feb 11, 2010
Location: Room 210, Hauptgebäude der Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, Bern, Switzerland
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes
Date: Feb 11, 2010
Location: Room 210, Hauptgebäude der Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, Bern, Switzerland
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (70MB)
Audio Speeches from 2009
La libertad con software libre(Culhuacan, Mexico)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Culhuacán, Mexico
Date: Friday December 4, 2009
Language: Spanish
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Culhuacán, Mexico
Date: Friday December 4, 2009
Language: Spanish
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio Files:
- The free software song: Ogg/Vorbis
- First part, the 4 freedoms: Ogg/Vorbis
- Second, the freedom in free software: Ogg/Vorbis
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (Cardozo Law School, NY)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Cardozo Law School, New-York, NY
Date: 2009
Thanks to Joly MacFie at Punkcast.
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Location: Cardozo Law School, New-York, NY
Date: 2009
Thanks to Joly MacFie at Punkcast.
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio Files:
- Speech: Ogg/Vorbis (73.0MB)
- Q&A section: Ogg/Vorbis (40.0MB)
A Free Digital Society (U of Canterbury, New Zealand)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Date: October 13, 2009
Thanks to Brenda Chawner, Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Date: October 13, 2009
Thanks to Brenda Chawner, Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Framer x individual. Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (49.8MB)
The danger of software patents (Wellington, New Zealand)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Date: October 8, 2009
Thanks to Brenda Chawner, Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Date: October 8, 2009
Thanks to Brenda Chawner, Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (81.6MB)
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (LIANZA Conference)
By: Richard Stallman
Event: LIANZA Conference
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Date: October 12, 2009
Thanks to Brenda Chawner, Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Event: LIANZA Conference
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Date: October 12, 2009
Thanks to Brenda Chawner, Senior Lecturer at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington.
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman
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Free Software Song Ogg Converter
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (47.3MB)
Richard Stallman was a guest on Pcradioshow2.org
Hosts: Hank, Alfred, Michael
Date aired: July 22, 2009
Thanks to PCRADIO
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman and PCRadio
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Date aired: July 22, 2009
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Audio file: Ogg/Vorbis (13.3MB)
PCRadio:
“Our guest was Richard Stallman, the man behind GNU and the Free Software Foundation. He condems the Amazon Kindle (his term for it is the 'swindle') because it takes away freedoms that readers of hardcopy books enjoy. Freedoms such as the ability to lend a book to a friend, to borrow one from a library, to buy one anonymously by paying cash, to keep a book as long as we like and to give it away. The Amazon Kindle implements DRM - digital rights management - to restrict your use of books. He is not against eBook readers per se, just the DRM, which in addition to the above also requires you to run proprietary software to read eBooks. He urged listeners to go to Defectivebydesign.org and sign up to participate in his protests.”
Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks (Edmonton, Canada)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: The Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: May 5, 2009
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman and PCRadio
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Location: The Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Date: May 5, 2009
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (57.0MB)
The Open Source Software: Issues and Philosophy (Marseille, France)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
Date: April 2-5, 2009
Thanks to Terre TV Production for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman and PCRadio
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Location: Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
Date: April 2-5, 2009
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Copyright (C) 2009 Richard M. Stallman and PCRadio
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (16.9MB)
Audio Speeches from 2008
Audio Speeches from 2007
Richard Stallman was a guest on Pcradioshow2.org
Hosts: Hank, Alfred, Michael
Date aired: December 5, 2007
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Copyright (C) 2007 Richard M. Stallman and PCRadio
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Date aired: December 5, 2007
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Pcradioshow had Richard Stallman as a guest and would like to present it here for your enjoyment in two rates: 16k, 32k.
Audio Files (Ogg/Vorbis format):
- 16k (11.2MB)
- 32k (11.8MB)
Audio Speeches from 2006
Audio Speeches from 2005
Patents - Barriers to development (Calgary, Canada)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: University of Calgary, Canada
Date: May 18, 2005
Copyright (C) 2005 University of Calgary Unix Users' Group and Richard Stallman
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Location: University of Calgary, Canada
Date: May 18, 2005
Copyright (C) 2005 University of Calgary Unix Users' Group and Richard Stallman
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Audio and video files:
- Audio: Ogg/Vorbis (79MB)
- Video: Ogg/Theora (202MB)
Free Software Freedoms, in Spanish (Speech for Arcis)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: National Center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan
Recorded for Arcis (Africa Regional Centre for Information Science)
Date: May 23, 2005
Language: Spanish
Duration: 74 minutes
Copyright (C) 2005 Richard Stallman
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Location: National Center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan
Recorded for Arcis (Africa Regional Centre for Information Science)
Date: May 23, 2005
Language: Spanish
Duration: 74 minutes
Copyright (C) 2005 Richard Stallman
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Audio and video files:
- Audio, Ogg/Vorbis: Complete (12MB)
- Video (smaller), high compression Ogg/Theora: Part 1 (25MB) | Part 2 (21MB)
- Video (bigger), low compression Ogg/Theora: Part 1 (108MB) | Part 2 (105MB)
What is Free Software? (Taiwan)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: National Center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan
Date: May 27, 2005
Duration: 2 hours, 12 minutes
Copyright (C) 2005 Richard Stallman
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Location: National Center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan
Date: May 27, 2005
Duration: 2 hours, 12 minutes
Copyright (C) 2005 Richard Stallman
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Audio and video files:
- Audio: Ogg/Vorbis (19MB)
- Video: Ogg/Theora (133MB)
Audio Speeches from 2004
History of Free software and Software patents, in Spanish (Girona, Spain)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: University of Girona, Spain
Date: April 30, 2004
Language: Spanish (Castellano), introduced in Catalan
Duration: 2 hours, 32 minutes
Copyright (C) 2004 University of Girona
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Location: University of Girona, Spain
Date: April 30, 2004
Language: Spanish (Castellano), introduced in Catalan
Duration: 2 hours, 32 minutes
Copyright (C) 2004 University of Girona
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Audio and video files:
- Small Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (19MB)
- Medium video file: Ogg/Theora, frame size 272x176 (103MB)
- Large video file: Ogg/Theora, frame size 544x352 (366MB)
Free Software Freedom and Community (Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Location: École Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Date: April 2004
By: Richard Stallman
Language: Introduction in French, body of the speech in English
Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Thanks to Régis Desneulin and Jérôme Alet, from Faculty of Medicine of Nice,University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2004 École Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques
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Date: April 2004
By: Richard Stallman
Language: Introduction in French, body of the speech in English
Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Thanks to Régis Desneulin and Jérôme Alet, from Faculty of Medicine of Nice,University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2004 École Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (22.5MB)
The dangers of software patents (Sydney, Australia)
By: Richard Stallman
Location: University of South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Date: October 14, 2004
Duration: 1 hour, 49 minutes
Thanks to John Jacobs for making this recording.
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Location: University of South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Date: October 14, 2004
Duration: 1 hour, 49 minutes
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Audio Files:
- Ogg/Vorbis (16MB)
- Ogg/Vorbis (66MB), Higher quality / bit rate
GNU and Linux, interview in Spanish with Indymedia
By: Richard Stallman
Location: Bogota, Columbia
Date: November 2004
Duration: 20 minutes 38 seconds
Language: Spanish
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Location: Bogota, Columbia
Date: November 2004
Duration: 20 minutes 38 seconds
Language: Spanish
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (3MB)
Software Freedom and the GNU Generation (U of Illinois)
By: Bradley M. Kuhn
Location: Siebel Center for Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign, USA
Date: April 24, 2004
Duration: 2 hour, 4 minutes
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Society, Urbana, Champaign, John Sullivan
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Location: Siebel Center for Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign, USA
Date: April 24, 2004
Duration: 2 hour, 4 minutes
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Society, Urbana, Champaign, John Sullivan
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Note: BMK's speech starts with a few seconds of background noise. (Possibly the projection screen motor).
In this speech, Brad Kuhn, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, talks about his beginnings in the free software movement and gives concrete examples from his experience as being a proprietary software developer as to why free software is a far better way to make and sell software. It should be considered a excellent introduction to Free Software. In the question and answer segment, Mr. Kuhn discusses with the audience far ranging topics that effect the future of the industry such as the SCO vs. IBM Lawsuit, File Formats, and the DMCA. This speech was presented by the Free Software Society, a student organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign dedicated to the promotion of Free Software.
Interview with Richard Stallman about ethics and principles of free software (Edinburgh)
Location: Edinburgh Informatics Colloquium
Year: 2004
Duration: 22 minutes
Recorded by ab for Indymedia Scotland
Copyright (C) 2004 AB, IMC Scotland
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Year: 2004
Duration: 22 minutes
Recorded by ab for Indymedia Scotland
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (3.1MB)
This interview is also available as anarticle.
Audio Speeches from 2003
What Should it Mean to Promote Free Software? (recorded for Curitiba event)
By: Richard Stallman
Year: 2003
Duration: 32 minutes
Recorded by Richard Stallman
Copyright (C) 2003 Richard M. Stallman
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Year: 2003
Duration: 32 minutes
Recorded by Richard Stallman
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Richard Stallman:
“This is a speech that I recorded so it could be played at a freesoftware event in Curitiba, Brazil (the state of Parana), in November,2003. A few points in the speech will not be clear without somebackground.
The event was actually a corporate trade show, but its title gave theimpression of being more of an activist event. The organizersrecruited a free software activist to run the speeches track, and heconvinced me to attend. Between the title and the fact that my friendwas the one asking me, and the fact that the state government ofParana was sponsoring the event, I assumed it was bona-fide freesoftware activism. I agreed to go.
A scandal broke in Brazil when it became known that the event hadaccepted Microsoft as a major sponsor. My friend tried to defend thisas 'spending the enemy's money'; he didn't realize that Microsoftknows what it is doing when it buys its way into such events. Then hetold me, 'Besides, the other major sponsor was Oracle.'
Most of our community is not sufficiently politically aware torecognize that Oracle's sponsorship ought to be just as scandalous asMicrosoft's. Regardless of who the owner is, non-free softwaretramples your freedom.
I was not sure whether to attend the conference or boycott it.Ultimately I was unable to go to Brazil because of my broken arm. Idecided that any harm my participation might do was already donethrough the use of my name, and that it was better for me to give aspeech about what had gone wrong than not to do so.
In this speech, I sought to educate rather than attack the freesoftware activists who participated in the event, as well as the stategovernment of Parana, which I hope will continue promoting freesoftware in the future, but next time will get better guidance in howto do so.”
The dangers of software patents (Westminster University)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: Westminster University, London, England
Date: October 26, 2003
Duration: 1 hour, 22 minutes
Thanks to Nicholas R Hill for making this recording.
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Location: Westminster University, London, England
Date: October 26, 2003
Duration: 1 hour, 22 minutes
Thanks to Nicholas R Hill for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2003 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (11.8MB)
Audio Speeches from 2002
Software Patents - Dangers to Development (London School of Economics)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: London School of Economics, London, England
Date: December 3, 2002
Duration: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Thanks to Nicholas R Hill for making this recording.
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Location: London School of Economics, London, England
Date: December 3, 2002
Duration: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Thanks to Nicholas R Hill for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (14.6MB)
Software Patents - Obstacles to software development (Cambridge University)
Free Ogg Songs
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: Computer science lab, Cambridge University, England
Date: March 25, 2002
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Thanks to Nicholas R Hill for making this recording, and to FIPR for organizing the event.
Transcribed by Nicholas Hill and hyperlinked by Markus Kuhn
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: Computer science lab, Cambridge University, England
Date: March 25, 2002
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Thanks to Nicholas R Hill for making this recording, and to FIPR for organizing the event.
Transcribed by Nicholas Hill and hyperlinked by Markus Kuhn
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard M. Stallman
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Free Software Song Ogg Mp3
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (12.5MB)
This speech is available as a hypertext transcript.
Copyright vs Community in the age of computer Networks (Queen Mary University)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: Queen Mary University, London
Date: February 12, 2002
Duration: 2 hours, 4 minutes
Thanks to Nicholas R Hill for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: Queen Mary University, London
Date: February 12, 2002
Duration: 2 hours, 4 minutes
Thanks to Nicholas R Hill for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (14.9MB)
Software Freedom and the GNU Generation (Gnubies)
By: Bradley M Kuhn
Event: Gnubies
Date: 2002
Duration: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Thanks to Andrew Schaaf for making this recording.Event: Gnubies
Date: 2002
Duration: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Copyright (C) 2002 Bradley M. Kuhn
Free Ogg Music Files
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Audio Speeches from 2001
The Danger of Software Patents (Model Engineering College, Kerala)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: Model Engineering College, Thrikkakara, Kerala, India
Year: 2001
Copyright (C) 2001, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
CreativeCommons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License
Location: Model Engineering College, Thrikkakara, Kerala, India
Year: 2001
Copyright (C) 2001, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
CreativeCommons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (179MB)
A transcription of this speech is available.
Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation (New York University)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: New York University in New York, NY
Date: May 29, 2001
Duration: 2 hours, 17 minutes
Thanks to Joly of punkcast.com for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2001, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Location: New York University in New York, NY
Date: May 29, 2001
Duration: 2 hours, 17 minutes
Thanks to Joly of punkcast.com for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2001, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Verbatim copying and distribution of the entire speech recording arepermitted provided this notice is preserved.
Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (18.7MB)
This recording (encoded a bit differently) is also available atpunkcast.com, as the filesrms-nyu1.ogg (51MB)and rms-nyu2.ogg (62MB).Incidentally, some still images are alsoavailable there.
Finally, atranscription of this speech is also available.
Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks (MIT)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date: April 19, 2001
Duration: 1 hour, 50 minutes, 27 seconds
Thanks to Mark H. Weaver and the MIT Communications Forum for makingthis recording.
Copyright (C) 2001 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date: April 19, 2001
Duration: 1 hour, 50 minutes, 27 seconds
Thanks to Mark H. Weaver and the MIT Communications Forum for makingthis recording.
Copyright (C) 2001 Richard M. Stallman
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The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System(ArsDigita University)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: ArsDigita University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date: January 2, 2001
Duration: 2 hours, 39 minutes, 34 seconds
Thanks to Mark H. Weaver for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2001 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: ArsDigita University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date: January 2, 2001
Duration: 2 hours, 39 minutes, 34 seconds
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Copyright (C) 2001 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (22MB)
Audio Speeches from 2000
The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System (Ljubljana)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: Auditorium Smelt, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date: 2000
Duration: 2 hours, 22 minutes
Copyright (C) 2000 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: Auditorium Smelt, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date: 2000
Duration: 2 hours, 22 minutes
Copyright (C) 2000 Richard M. Stallman
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Audio File: Ogg/Vorbis (20.4MB)
The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System(LinuxTag 2000 [sic])
By: Richard M. Stallman
Event: LinuxTag 2000 [sic]
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Date: July 1st, 2000
Duration: 2 hours, 13 minutes, 58 seconds
Thanks to Fabian Wauthier for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2000 Richard M. Stallman
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Event: LinuxTag 2000 [sic]
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Date: July 1st, 2000
Duration: 2 hours, 13 minutes, 58 seconds
Thanks to Fabian Wauthier for making this recording.
Copyright (C) 2000 Richard M. Stallman
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The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System (U of Cincinnati)
By: Richard M. Stallman
Location: University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio
Date: January 24, 2000
Duration: 2 hours, 33 minutes, 23 seconds
Thanks to James Carter for making this recording.
RMS' visit to Cincinnati was co-sponsored by the University of Cincinnatiand the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group.
Copyright (C) 2000 Richard M. Stallman
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Location: University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio
Date: January 24, 2000
Duration: 2 hours, 33 minutes, 23 seconds
Thanks to James Carter for making this recording.
RMS' visit to Cincinnati was co-sponsored by the University of Cincinnatiand the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group.
Copyright (C) 2000 Richard M. Stallman
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Loop your files like a pro! A step-by-step guide on giving your songs a nice start that doesn't play twice!
- 11/12/2016 08:10 AM
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This tutorial is available on the web already, but i thought i'd rewrite it to make it even more understandable by people who appreciate a more thorough indication on what to do and where to click.
This tutorial is a step-by-step guide on how to loop .ogg files like the pro's do.
You might have noticed in various RPG's that music has a special way of looping. A battle theme might start with an introductory beat before the main melody kicks in, then when the song finishes, instead of starting from the beggining and playing the introductory beat again, it loops back to the main melody! Let's learn how to do this.
◄ Things You Will Need ►
For this tutorial you will need two things:
• The free audio editing software Audacity, latest version.
• The .ogg track you want to loop. For this tutorial, let's practice using this one (Right click > Save As).
Note: Audacity has the capability of opening various file formats, so don't worry if all you've got is a WAV or MP3* file, audacity can open them, and then you can save the audio in whatever format you'd like, in this case it will be Ogg Vorbis.
* Audacity needs lame_enc.dll (Right click > Save As) to open and export to mp3.
◄ Instructions ►
Install and run Audacity, then open SuperPantito_TitleScreen.ogg with it.
Your screen should look more or less like this one.
This is the basic user interface of Audacity. Most of what you see is obvious stuff, the round buttons below the taskbar play, pause, stop, skip to start or end the currently loaded track, and the last button records audio input from your microphone if you've got one.
Try it out, press and hold Shift, and then click on the round Play button (the button with a green arrow that looks like ►), this will play the song with looping enabled.
Once it finishes, you'll notice it starts from the beggining, repeating the drum section at the start. Ideally, we want it to loop right when the main drum beat starts.
We could spend a bit of time explaining the complete interface of Audacity, but for the purpose of this tutorial, let's focus our immediate attention on this section:
Click on the little arrow pointing down at the right side of the gray box under 'Selection Start:', and a popup window will appear. Select 'Samples' from the window and the gray boxes will change into sample selection mode. Afterwards, check the circle that says 'Length' above the second gray box.
Once you've done this, we can begin. Hover the mouse over the blue squiggles at the middle, which represent the audio waves of our song. If you click on any part of the song, the track will start playing from that point the next time you press the Play button.
What we want is to loop the song so you don't even notice the song started playing again. We need to find the points of the song where it should loop. This is something you have to do carefully, if you choose two parts that don't sound more or less the same, when the track loops you'll hear a noticeable cut and that's not what we're looking for.
For your convenience, i've already cut the track at an easy to locate loop point. The next thing we will do is place a marker for the part where the song ends, and another one for when the song starts again. In this particular song, let's place our song's starting point by clicking anywhere on the blue squiggles, and then clicking on the Skip To End button (The round button that looks like ►►| ), this will place the cursor right at the end of the song.
Next, go to the taskbar at the top, and click on 'Tracks > Add Label At Selection', a label shall be added below the song, you'll be asked to name it, name it 'Loop End'. This is where the song shall end.
Now we have to add another tag, this time for when the song begins. Here we will have to be more careful. For convenience, here's a screenshot of the place where the starting point is:
It's right when the cymbal crash sounds. You might want to zoom-in on the track so you can click on the right moment before the cymbal sounds. You can do this by pressing on the magnifying glasses at the top bar.
As the little icons explain, the magnifying glass with a plus sign (+) will zoom in, while the one with the minus sign (-) zooms out.
Once you've located and clicked on the right point where you want the song to start again, repeat what we did before, click on 'Tracks > Add Label At Selection', and name the new label 'Loop Start'.
Now we have both of our labels. Zoom out a bit by clicking on the magnifying glass with a minus a few times, this way we can see the entirety of our track and both labels.
Next, click and drag from 'Loop Start' to 'Loop End' to select the portion of the track that we want to loop. Don't worry about precision, thanks to the labels the cursor will stick to them if you click close to them.
If you want to test if you got the loop right, press and hold Shift, and then click on the play button ( ► ) to play and loop what you selected.
Make sure you still have the part from Loop Start to Loop End selected, and notice how the gray boxes we saw previously have some numbers displayed on them, keep these numbers at your sight, you'll need them in a bit:
With your loop still selected, let's click on 'File > Export Audio'.
A save file window will appear. Choose the folder you want to save the track in, name your new track, and select Ogg Vorbis as filetype.
Once you did this, the export window will appear. This window contains all the tags that display information about your file, like the track's name, Author, album, year, etc.
We need two empty tags, so click on the 'Add' button two times. This will create two new empty tags.
Click on the first tag and name it LOOPSTART, then the one below and name it LOOPLENGTH. This will create our loop.
Now, remember our gray boxes with numbers on them? Take the numbers of the first box (under 'Selection Start:') and ignoring the commas, type them on the block next to LOOPSTART. Next, take the numbers of the second gray box (Under 'End' and 'Length') and also ignoring the commas, write them on the value for LOOPLENGTH.
Finally, click on 'OK', and your song will save.
Next, open up your maker of choice (In my case i tested it using Rpg Maker VX Ace, RPG Maker MV and Game Maker Studio), and if you did everything correctly, your track should only play the beggining once, and loop the main part of the song after it ends!
This would have been the resulting file.
Now that you know how to properly set up loop points you can try out this technique with any kind of song.
Thank you for reading this tutorial and i hope you found it instructive.
If you have any questions or comments feel free to ask.