2009/7/17 gordon dunlop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:astrozubenel@googlemail.com" target="_blank">astrozubenel@googlemail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is a video on RSM's views about DRM and patents from the combined KDE/Gnome Gran Canaria Desktop Summit 2009:<br><br><a href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Video-Stallman-on-DRM-Patents-and-C" target="_blank">http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Video-Stallman-on-DRM-Patents-and-C</a><br>
<br>His controversial keynote speech from the same conference:<br><br><a href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Video-Keynote-Conference-at-the-Desktop-Summit" target="_blank">http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Video-Keynote-Conference-at-the-Desktop-Summit</a><br>
<br>Which prompted many arguments on blogs such as this one:<br><br><a href="http://mjg59.livejournal.com/113408.html" target="_blank">http://mjg59.livejournal.com/113408.html</a><br><br>Which was linked to a speech he previously made about the church of EMACS:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ejlP0uWeI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ejlP0uWeI</a><br><br>Here are the video archives of the Linux magazine on some of the conferences it has covered:<br>
<br><a href="http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/" target="_blank">http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/</a><br><font color="#888888">
<br>Gordon</font></blockquote><div><br><p>And an orator said, “Speak to us of Freedom.”</p>
<p>And he answered:</p>
<p>At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,</p>
<p>Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.</p>
<p>Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I
have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a
handcuff.</p>
<p>And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the
desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease
to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.</p>
<p>You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,</p>
<p>But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.</p>
<p>And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break
the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened
around your noon hour?</p>
<p>In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes.</p>
<p>And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?</p>
<p>If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.</p>
<p>You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the
foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.</p>
<p>And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his
throne erected within you is destroyed.</p>
<p>For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a
tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their won pride?</p>
<p>And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen
by you rather than imposed upon you.</p>
<p>And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in
your heart and not in the hand of the feared.</p>
<p>Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace,
the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the
pursued and that which you would escape.</p>
<p>These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that
cling.</p>
<p>And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers
becomes a shadow to another light.</p>
<p>And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the
fetter of a greater freedom.</p><p>from The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran<br></p></div></div><br>Iain<br>