Comments on: Richard Stallman Explains Software Patents (Video)

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:10:57 +0000

I've found another series of Flash-based videos. They show an RMS talk on software patents. It's a newer talk uploaded just 4 days ago. Part 1 is here

By: Robert Millan

Robert Millan — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:44:31 +0000

Hi,

You might like to know that Youtube can be played with free software now:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

By: Roy Bixler

Roy Bixler — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:18:11 +0000

I’ve just finished listening to the Australian talk about software patents found in the links to the “gnu.org” site above and I can say that it is substantially similar to the Irish talk as seen in the YouTube video referenced in the base article.

By: Roy Bixler

Roy Bixler — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:57:09 +0000

No offence taken. It was my mistake.

While I’m at it, another reason to listen to the audio from the GNU site is that it is not broken up in 11 parts. It didn’t appear to me like all that many people watched the whole Youtube video because the number of views seemed quite low for the latter part of the talk. The point is that this talk (whether the Youtube one or the GNU site one) is well worth hearing. Even though it’s years old, it’s quite a good summary of why software patents are, on the whole, harmful.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:52:29 +0000

Oh, that’s exactly the one that I identified earlier. It’s likely to contain pretty much the same content if it’s from around the same ‘world tour’ of 2004 (I don’t mean that in an offensive sense).

By: Roy Bixler

Roy Bixler — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:34:29 +0000

Since the Youtube video seems to be from a speech given in Ireland sometime in 2004, I don’t see it listed in GNU’s page of OGG audio-video links. The closest one appears to be the following:

Richard M. Stallman’s speech, The dangers of software patents , given at University of South Wales, Australia
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html#UNSW04

By: akf

akf — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:53:53 +0000

For those, who prefer a video:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html#CALG

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:02:43 +0000

Thank you, akf, and I apologise for making this available only in a proprietary format (I know how much Stallman dislikes this too). I have taken a look at the URL you provided and this one seems likely to intersect, unless it’s the same talk (from around the same time):

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html#UNSW04

There is an Ogg file available.

PyTube used to enable me to covert YouTube videos to Ogg (which I did for a while), but Google made changed that rendered PyTube incompatible again.

By: akf

akf — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:52:49 +0000

I don’t know what is in this video, for I cannot watch it.
But the video archive of the fsf is under http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html