For context: this Podcast was recorded in June 2023. Since then Avenue Bank has received its full banking licence, and I am no longer at Avenue Bank.

What are you 14?

14 years later the file transfer is still waiting

This insistence greatly hinders the spread of his message.

I don't care what are the political views and position of this man. He's talking about right, he's doing a right thing! The knowledge should be OPEN to everyone. If you made a cool software good for you - no one tells you that you should not benefit from it, or should not sell it for some amount of money - but what you should is to make it FREE, free not in price but in freedom, liberty which means you should not hide your software code and not restrict it. The knowledge that you got to make this software is not a private property - the knowledge is the product of the humanity. So it must be open to humanity

Got to admire his steadfastness!

Sounds too good to be true ...!

Stallman is a real hero, way ahead of his time.

Who is this guy? He is a legend! Very prophetic

8 years later still relevant, current and valid

i don't like everything he says bet i fully support him here

This guy has 5.2 billion in US dollars a video that is 7 years old with 238 views 1 thumbs down one thumbs up no comments weird !!he looks so young here

As a Data Center Manager who worked as a technician in the 80's & 90's with raised flooring. Then saw Barclays state of the art data centre in Slough (west of London) in 2011. It just amazes me how forward thinking you guys are in the design. Hats off to you! Thanks for the detailed explanations too.

what a great man

Stallman Does god's work, making sure that the voice of software devs are actually heard.

Good Job Marco!

Fuck Salesforce

Then got the bullet 4 months later

Well said George. Very articulate.

Thanks for sharing. I love to hear the thoughts behind the design process and how you've taken those lessons learned to make improvements.

True value of RMS will be realized in future

I was thinking of what Richard Stallman said about changing all government schools from windows to linux it will be free of charge and kids could learn better technologies. I wonder how much money is spend on non free software, where we could have our schools full of free software.

Stallman is a hero.

I really love free software. But companies are there to make profits. That is their mandatory purpose of their existence. Patents protect people from (especially from big companies) to steal your algorithm. If that algorithm is your MAIN value that you're trying to sell, huge companies have both the manpower and money to steal your original idea from your product and eliminate you from the market all together. Patenting does not contradict free software. This just reeks communism, which is (or rather was) his usual attitude.

"will we jump to it".."probably not" [until Abbott/Turnbull are put back into the job they did best - Members of the Opposition"

What's ACMA ?

Now what would that little shit do if people came to protest his speeches? Lose his shit like he did in Brazil?

Thank you Richad Stallman for helping us in Australia to keep fee softwere movement going.

Why didn't cameraman show the screen not the speaker? I can't see what the speaker is referring to.

it news? Old news and a massive beat up! Matthew Flannery was hardly a leader of anything and honestly hacking upper numbucta who cares where the hell that is council site is hardly crime of the century. AFP stick to the kiddie porn people, you are good at getting them and they deserve it. Honestly it's just all cringingly embarrassing for real hackers and ethical hackers alike. basically the AFP arrested an internet Troll and then trumpeted this to the world as some sort of victory over online hacking. Can't we all just forget it ever happened. Please!

great man.

Way to go Stallman keep it up!

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thanks @ITNEWS #NBN Panel #ausvotes

yeah, and he needs food too, imo its ok if you sell your stuff somehow to survive as long as you dont press people into rules what they do with your soft , its all about the point of view, if you sell your software and say take it do what you want with it, why not??

He never did. I used it way back in 1980 - 1981 and he never sold a copy to anyone. It was freely available both in the form of a .exe file and in source form and before you say that .exe didn't exist in 1980-81; this was on a DECSYSTEM-20 running TOPS20. In those days Emacs was written in Lisp with some TOPS20 assembler IIRC. Not something that would be easy to sell. I suspect you are thinking of one of the many copies that were spawned by RMS's version. MicroEmacs perhaps?

Not so. I don't believe he ever sold a copy of emacs or any other software he has written to anyone for anything. He may very well do some consultancy but I think he is also paid for giving talks and presentations etc. although that is only a guess.

Thanks. I use youtube-dl, a great CLI Free Software :) *in fact, public domain rg3. github.io/youtube-dl/

he's a good programmer but he has a bad personality

What happens when his money runs out? He may still be alive! And he'll probably have no retirement income.

I thought he works as a consultant.

Wow, a blast from the past.

Freedom of shirts

I have always admired Stallman's shirt choices.

"The building insecurity staff" brilliant!

:) Yes, or even easier/faster with youtube-dl. But the point is for it to be available to every people, not just the ones with some technical knowledge :)

Hi RVStudio, The interview was available for a time on our website in OGG format. As the article is now over two years old the file is no longer hosted.

you think this guy is a joke until you suddenly realize he's a genius

Don't watch in fullscreen, your eyes will explode

What happened with this?