1:26:02
If we could invite Richard Stallman
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who's the founder of
the Free Software Association
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and Tim Ney, who's the managing director.
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There we go. Hahahahaha
1:26:15
Ah, here it is.
1:26:18
Now, Richard, I saw you playing your recorder
at, in Paris at that Linux conference
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But I didn't have audio tracks.
1:26:26
So would you them to add audio to their, uh...
1:26:28
Video downstream next time
1:26:31
Uh..I don't have any control over that
1:26:33
unfortunately those things can
only be done with non-free software.
1:26:42
We'll give you the award, and before you say a word,
1:26:46
we'll have a Tim and yourself hold up
a little representation of the contribution
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towards the Free Software Association.
1:26:55
So, very ironic things have happened,
1:27:01
but nothing to match this
1:27:04
Giving the Linus Tovarlds award
to the Free Software Foundation
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is sort of like giving the
Han Solo award to the rebel fleet.
1:27:18
You see, some of you may not realize how far
that analogy goes.
1:27:28
But actually let me tell you
how this, how we got here.
1:27:32
see what happened is,
1:27:34
15 years ago, if you wanted to use a computer,
1:27:37
the only way you could do it
was to, was with proprietary software,
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software that divides and subjugates the users.
1:27:46
And most people just...
1:27:48
A lot of people didn't like it.
1:27:50
But they saw no alternative.
1:27:51
But some of us were determined
to make an alternative.
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And we said we're gonna develop
a free operating system,