On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Joshua Radke wrote: > I've read tons of philosophical summaries from the FSF, the Open Source > Initiative, and various other sources, which left me a bit confused. I > was most impressed with Richard Stallman's clarity, and would recommend > one of his talks to anybody interested in understanding the FSF's > position. Stallman had no notes and no slides, but he spoke for about two hours and I don't think he said "umm" even once. It was pretty amazing if you think about it. It was so well organized that a transcript could probably be published as a book chapter with almost no editing. He obviously gets a lot of practice! I took a lot of notes (almost 6 pages) and wrote down some verbatim quotes. I'll post a long summary of the talk and quotes later. I was glad that I wrote down the "four freedoms" (0 through 3) when he first listed them because he later referred to them almost entirely by number (as if we would remember!). Mike