Need for Compromise in Free Software – With Richard Stallman

I had the opportunity to host a (virtual) round-table discussion on the need (or lack of need) for compromise in Free Software with an absolutely stellar group of panelists.

Including: Richard Stallman (founder of the GNU Project and President of the Free Software Foundation), Aaron Seigo (of Kolab and KDE fame), Stuart Langridge (co-host of Bad Voltage and LUG Radio) and Swapnil Bhartiya (journalist for ITworld, Linux.com and more).

At the request of Richard, I have not posted this video to YouTube (watch the video for a detailed discussion of why).  I have, however, posted multiple versions (including an Ogg video and an audio-only version) over at this page on Archive.org.  All under the Creative Commons.

The video is over 1 hour long and is jam packed with interesting discussion.  We could have easily gone longer — and we may need to at some point.  Huge thanks to all of the panelists who took part.  All of you are amazing.

You can also get a large (over 1 gig), 1080p, .mp4 version of the video over on my Patreon page.  (The content is exactly the same in all versions… but the 1080p, mp4 version is so big that I put it up for just my Patrons so that my server isn’t murdered.)