Did you know that Richard Stallman was interviewed by Kim Hill on Saturday? I missed it but ended up listening to the podcast yesterday. It’s pretty interesting listening. He covers a lot of topics including 911 “conspiracy” theories, airport security in the US and why he considers some kinds of electronic surveillance to be deeply disconcerting in terms of the way they put a lot of power into the hands of law enforcement (which the public then has to take on trust will not be exploited). Pretty thought-provoking stuff.
His views are perhaps on the more extreme end of the range to my own but I think the basic principle of his arguments are sound. Kim Hill however seemed quite annoyed with him, repeatedly accusing him of saying things he hadn’t and extrapolating wildly though I suppose it gave him the opportunity to clearly define what his specific view was on several things, but why so grumpy, Kim? Another surprise is that he sounds a bit like Woody Allen (which is something that a fellow librarian pointed out, and I have to agree).
If you’re looking for a little background radio to listen to this afternoon, why not check out the podcast for yourself? It runs to just over 39 minutes and LIANZA Conference gets a mention (yay!). I can’t wait to hear what he says in his keynote address. I wager it’ll generate quite a lot of debate so make sure you get along to that one. You don’t want to miss out on the “watercooler conversation” that’ll go on afterwards.
October 6, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Hi – the link to Radio New Zealand doesn’t work for me – perhaps because I am using open source 🙂
Anyway, this link does:
[audio src="http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20091003-0905-Richard_Stallman_digital_freedoms-048.mp3" /]
Pity it is to an mp3, which is a proprietary format. But what are you going to do?
October 6, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Thanks for that Don. It’s also available in Ogg Vorbis which is open source, so durr, I probably should have used this link to start with – http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20091003-0905-Richard_Stallman_digital_freedoms.ogg
October 6, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Totally agree – Kim seemed to be getting unusually annoyed at some points…weird
October 7, 2009 at 10:59 am
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October 7, 2009 at 12:56 pm
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October 8, 2009 at 9:51 am
doesn’t work in ogg or mp3
October 8, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Hmm, this is weird, as it should work. I’d suggest checking in with Radio NZ about it. Here’s the link for contacting Radio NZ :
http://www.radionz.co.nz/contact
October 8, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Kim Hill interviewed RMS last time he was in NZ (last year), and it was remarkably harmonious (almost fawning, from memory)… I wonder if she was told by some that she went a bit too easy on him last time, and she was bent on being a bit more prickly this time around?
Dave
October 9, 2009 at 7:50 am
THIS! is why I love Richard Stallman. He appears to be just about the only person in America whose brain still works and remembers what being an American is all about. He’s the best thing that has ever happened to software, and I dare say, American thought. Americans need to be zealots about the US Constitution, the US Bill of Rights. They need to return to the idea that individual sovereignty needs to be jealously guarded and that syndicalism run amuk needs to be reigned in lest it overtake life in totality. That appears to be the balance today that is tipping precariously in favor of corporatism. It needs to tip the other way for freedom sake. (I don’t agree with his views on the welfare state though)
October 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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