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Eben Moglen: How I discovered Free Software and met RMS (video)
By Joe Barr
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June 01, 2007 (8:00:00 AM)
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In this, the fifth and penultimate edition of our weeklong series of video clips taken from our interview with Professor Eben Moglen at the Red Hat Summit in San Diego, the good professor explains how he came to meet and do legal work for Richard Stallman.
Professor Moglen grew up in an era where software was more free than it is today. In this clip he talks about his path eventually crossed that of Richard Stallman, and how they came to work together to make software free once more.
The runtime on this clip is almost 11 minutes long. Click the image of Professor Moglen to view the video in Ogg format.
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Previous videos in this series:
Eben Moglen: GPLv3 not about MS and Novell
Eben Moglen: MS should remove patents from Novell agreement
Eben Moglen: It's not easy being a monopoly
Eben Moglen: FSF - The Next Generation
If you have problems viewing the video you might try installing VLC. Why are we using Ogg format? Read this.
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Thanks. He is eloquent in any setting. Don't miss tomorrow's, when he explains how to change the world.
The runtime is in fact 10:42, and the clip is about 40M.
One of two things is happening here? Either the video is- too short or my various palyers are locking up?
Edubuntu 7.04
1- MPlayer - goes until 3:35 then stops
2- VLC - goes sometimes until 3:40 Then seems to look for minutes that it is done and this also happens sometimes at the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:20 internal as well, the timer clock keeps going but no audio and no moving video (just locked video)
3- VLC - Mozilla plugin (locks up within 20 seconds)
4 - Real Player - plays until 3:50 then buffering forever waiting for over 2 minutes now happens everytime?
5 - WOW. Totem just Played it all... but with many many many many many buffering pauses.
Anyway - he does not get to the meet with RMS part at all with any player?
Edubuntu 7.04
1- MPlayer - goes until 3:35 then stops
2- VLC - goes sometimes until 3:40 Then seems to look for minutes that it is done and this also happens sometimes at the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:20 internal as well, the timer clock keeps going but no audio and no moving video (just locked video)
3- VLC - Mozilla plugin (locks up within 20 seconds)
4 - Real Player - plays until 3:50 then buffering forever waiting for over 2 minutes now happens everytime?
5 - WOW. Totem just Played it all... but with many many many many many buffering pauses.
Anyway - he does not get to the meet with RMS part at all with any player?
Of course the totem one worked.
How is the free flash version working these days?
Then this could be put up on YouTube and their servers are built for dishing out the stream needed to avoid the long and frequent pauses we get from Linux.com (is it a server issue at Linux.com that causes the pauses all the time)?
How is the free flash version working these days?
Then this could be put up on YouTube and their servers are built for dishing out the stream needed to avoid the long and frequent pauses we get from Linux.com (is it a server issue at Linux.com that causes the pauses all the time)?
Hmmm...I'm viewing it throw MPlayer plugin in Firefox and it stops when he says "$99".
OK, I got it...Just copy the link, use wget in command line or in KDE, use KGet to grab the video.
Good Interview
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 02, 2007 07:46 AMIt doesn't seem like Eben was a very challenging interview subject. What I mean is, you did not have any difficulty drawing answers from him:-)
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