Radio Talk Show covering Free Software : Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock
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For anybody here who is interested I gave a two hour talk on free software this morning. This wasn't at a conference or similar event, but on the radio. The show was Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock. It runs on the Liberty Radio Network (LRN) which is a radio network broadcast throughout Europe, Africa, and the United States.
It was a bit challenging given the radio personality, advertisers cutting in, and a poor connection, but none-the-less I attempted to get in the gist of what free software is, and as many other related issues as I could.
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I should also point out the talk starts at the 1 hour mark.
I just heard an interview the other day with Mr Hancock on the Peace Revolution Podcast. I was surprised because even though he is very bombastic and opinionated, he totally seemed to get it about technological freedom. Looking forward to listening to your interview
Wow that host... he's fired up but totally on the ball even if the details are a little off. :P
As for you, way to go! Your message is right on target, you can't go wrong with it, also good to see you mention Gluglug even if not in name. ;)
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Excellent talk, I think that you got all the important points. But that host :) Good job once again.
Hi Chris, first off, let me say that you did a great job. I've done radio interviews before and I know it is not easy... and that was long! On top of that, Ernie is a real personality.
I'm actually somewhat astonished that someone outside of our community is so zealous about technological freedom. Unlike 99.999999% of people outside of the free software world, it seems his definition of free hardware is at least as extreme as RMS and many of us.
It seems like he was really trying to hammer home the fact that there is still more to be done in the way of hardware freedom... just like the FSF even though he supports you and what you're doing, he doesn't want to tell his audience that your machines are 100% free until they are.
You did a great job representing the community... look forward to listening to your next interview as well. I do think he's right BTW... free software and libre computers could spread like wildfire among the type of people that listen to his show if they become aware of how it protects their freedom and why it is important... they just don't know that there is a viable alternative.
I'll begin with "wow that host" like a few others in this thread ...
I don't know what's funnier:
(a) Ernie complimenting himself at 3hrs 5min 30sec, or
(b) when Ernie played the song "don't stop believing"
He gets it though. Ernie said that he is ignorant and asked various questions in different ways. I suspect that he understood and asked extra questions for the audience's benefit.
Chris you really did a great job.
Wow that host.
THNX, Chris
you really did a great job.
Thanks Chris for pointing out !
Unfortunately I didn't feel too motivated to hear the rest of the show after listening to it about 20 minutes while riding my bike to work. I think you did a great job in this interview but the way this guy speaks makes my brain hurt :-o
The interview starts around the one hour mark.
I was listening right from the 1h mark and stopped right somewhere near 1:20h :-)
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Interestingly he's easier to understand off-radio. He slows down a bit and is much more comprehensible.
Yes, of course...I didn't expect him to be like that in "real life" but I found it really hard to follow him listening when doing the interview though. :-)
He is the kind of radio moderator which made me switch of the radio and turn over to some podcasts or music from my audio player back in the days when I was driving a few hours to work back then.
Possibly it would be a smarter idea and atract more listeners if he would be like that in the radio as well.
To me the kind he speaks pretty much boils down to the same question when I was listening to Stalman last week in Frankfurt: Will someone reach more / a lot of peoples when he speaks like that ?