:Audio Broadcast: An Interview with Richard Stallman
Audio Broadcast: An Interview with Richard Stallman Aug 31, 1999, 16 :28 UTC (17 Talkback[s]) (10756 reads)
The Fight for Free Software is far from over, according to Richard
Stallman.
Earlier this month, Dwight Johnson interviewed Richard
Stallman at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Due to popular demand, we
are making this interview available in its original form - an audio
broadcast.
As this is an interview with the commander of Free Software, we
should mention that we use MP3 with great regret as our medium for
this broadcast. It is impossible to release free software in the
US to produce MP3 files, or even play them--because software patents
have taken away our freedom.
Our community will need to move from this format to another
unpatented format. People are working on designing one--but
the job won't be easy; there are so many other software
patents in the field, that there may be no way to go around them.
Ironically, this broadcast illustrates one of the fights that
we have to face: putting an end to software patents.
