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Summary: We've re-encoded (as WebM) the likely sole/only speech Richard Stallman gave about his movement last year; today seems like a suitable time to republish it because tomorrow a British university/group will replatform him (to use their term)

THE portions of the speech, as shown above, may be relevant. This was probably the only time between September 2019 and March 2021 that Dr. RMS spoke publicly about Free software in particular. Tomorrow evening he plans to do so again and the title of his talk (with a 1.5-hour slot) is "Free Software: the Foundation of Freedom in Your Computing".

When Richard Stallman announced his return (to the FSF's Board) back in March of this year we also linked to some video segments/clips of him announcing his return, but those were (and still are) remotely hosted, so we've prepared a local copy below. Those are historically significant/important, so we don't wish to rely on availability/access to third parties.

RMS isn't deserving of this bad treatment. There have been many videos in his support since then (or videos condemning the 'cancel mob'), but corporate media simply ignores voices that don't suit its agenda. ⬆



Update: Partial transcript of the main video (at the top):

[00:00]

Hello. I'm Richard Stallman. Thirty seven years ago, I launched the development of the GNU operating system. The aim was to develop a complete operating system, including applications and utilities as well as the basic

[00:30]

core, so that users would be able to all their computing without ever running a non-free program. They would be able to do all their computing in Freedom.

[00:45]

Thirty five years ago, I launched the Free Software Foundation to raise funds to support GNU developments. Of course nowadays the Free Software Foundation does other things

[01:00]

to support Free Software and the Free Software Movement, in addition to supporting the development of GNU. Thirty seven years ago the way you did computing was by loading programs into your computer, applications, utilities, games, and so on and each of these programs was at least somewhat general purpose.