Richard Stallman on Free Software in Education

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Steve Hargadon[Edit][Delete]: Richard Stallman on Free Software in Education, October 12, 2006
Richard Stallman is well known as the founder of the GNU project and of the Free Software Foundation. This podcast looks at his thoughts on free software in learning. "In the interview, Richard defines the use of the word "free" in the context of software. He also defines the four essential freedoms that are behind the Free Software Movement, and the four reasons that he believes that schools should use exclusively Free Software (see also his essay on this topic)." Also worth noting is Hargadon's interview with an "extremely well prepared" Ragavan Srinivasan from HP on open source licenses. More...