Richard Stallman: Working for the public. Universities, software and freedom (Pisa, Italy, 2023)

Описание: Working for the public. Universities, software and freedom (Pisa, Italy, 2023)

By: Richard Stallman
Host(s): Maria Chiara Pievatolo, Marco Calamari, Francesco Potortì
Organizer: Department of Political Science, University of Pisa
Recorded by: Mediaventi Team, University of Pisa
Thanks to: Daniela Tafani, Dario Besseghini, Federico Bianchi, Mediaventi Team (University of Pisa), Bruno Nati (GARR)
Date: June 07, 2023
Location: Palazzo Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy
Language: English
Duration: originally: 2h 33min 32s, after cutting out TedX speech 2h 19min 45s

Copyright © 2023 Richard Stallman (speech)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)


It is giving me a bittersweet feeling to have Richard Stallman here today. Sweet, because this time the conference is organized by a couple of political philosophers working at the Department of Political Science. And this is a recognition that software is a kind of language organizing and shaping our world, and not just a technical and business issue. It is about free culture. It is about free speech. And it is a freedom that deserves to be understood and protected, even to the point of hacking copyright like Richard Stallman did. The bitterness comes from the fact that most Italian universities are no longer the cradle of free thinking, because they are using—or they are being used by—proprietary clouds and software, to the point that when we had to switch to remote teaching during the pandemics we were recommended as teachers to use Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom. Now we are using Big Blue Button, that is free software, and as you can see it's working perfectly.
--Maria Chiara Pievatolo


Note from YouTube uploader:
This video as sourced from gnu.org originally contained the TedX speech by Richard Stallman, it has been cut out from this upload of the video. The video in it's current form as uploaded here, starts right after the end of the TedX speech segment.
I have adjusted the timestamps accordingly, hence they will not match the timestamps of the original recording.


00:00:00 Maria Chiara Pievatolo (Introduction)
00:03:45 Speech
00:44:52 Marco Calamari (Machine learning systems)
00:50:12 Francesco Potortì (Software in universities)
01:02:00 Q&A
02:10:22 Maria Chiara Pievatolo (Concluding remarks)
02:13:22 Auction