Richard Stallman Interview on RT Television
Richard Stallman interviewed in the Worlds Apart series on RT (Russia Today) television channel:
RT.com web page: http://rt.com/shows/worlds-apart-oksana-boyko/human-rights-nsa-scandal-133/
mp4 stream: http://img.rt.com/files/episode/21/b9/50/00/wa0602_480p.mp4
Another bad interview made by this channel, unfortunately...
RT is great. And, so is Stallman.
And, I'm a big fan of both.
But, for some reason, when the two are mixed, the results are not very good... :|
If anyone wants to check out also one of the worst interviews that were made to Stallman, check out this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFMMXRoSxnA
And then look for the comments saying that Stallman should have punched that interviewer in the face... :)
12 minutes in.
"Muamarr Gadafi is the lesser of two evils"
I agree with Stallman, that more Freedom is always a good thing.
Yet, the interviewer is right, when she says that Libya is worse off now, than it was before, with Qaddafi.
For those of you who don't know it, Libya had the greatest quality of life in the whole continent. (http://www.voltairenet.org/article171766.html)
And its government was trying to improve also the quality of life for everyone else on that same continent. (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MI01Ak02.html + http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/06/natos-war-on-libya-is-an-attack-on-african-development/print)
And, the problem with its situation now, is that people (and, in special, people who have very limited access to culture) are very easy to manipulate. And, therefore, with the state that Libya was left in (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNczox-l0Sk) this freedom in it should be just temporary.
Since that, the people responsible for taking Qaddafi out (i.e. the Western powers that double crossed him) want, in the long run, to just install several smaller tribal dictators in charge of the same territory, and for Libya to go back to something closer to the Stone Age (as it is close to, already - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNczox-l0Sk) while the West finishes destroying the country and plundering its (most valuable) natural resources.
I think that was a good read despite I had to do so reading the source code since rt doesn't seem to work without JavaS***t.
I do agree rms and rt are bit like water and oil sometimes.
Thanks for posting the link.
I think it's the job of the interviewer to ask all the questions that other people might ask him. RMS was ready for everything.
(By the way, for those of you who don't know it...)
RT is the international (English language) TV news channel that has more viewers on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=726l20Uo3fs)
(Which means that, at least on the Internet, this kind of interviews - good or bad, and there were those who were not that bad, on that same channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUJtMlEwd6Q - will be viewed by many more people than if they had been done on CNN, or BBC...)
Also, Russia is one of the countries in the world were Free Software is making the biggest progresses. Since that,
- the government has started to implement its use in schools and official bureaus (http://www.altlinux.com/en/solutions/school/) through a government-sponsored GNU/Linux distribution (http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05339),
- there's another native GNU/Linux distribution which is also used by various government entities and private businesses (http://www.calculate-linux.org/introduction),
- and there's even a free version of Windows, being developed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS), that will allow people to be able to run free programs, made for Windows, on top of a free version also of this OS.
(An extra: http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2008/02/21/289246)
But why they compare him to be like Don Quijote de la mancha ? thats very stupid, i think its a very rude way to tell him his activism is stupid! or a waste of time. WTF!
That's one of the things I'm talking about, when I say that it's a bad interview... :) eheh
I guess the problem is that, both this more recent interviewer and the one that I said that made one the worst interviews I've seen being made to Stallman (http://rt.com/shows/spotlight/richard-stallman/), are people who specialize in political issues... And that, these are probably not the best type of persons to interview someone like Richard Stallman, and ask him questions about software-related issues...
(This female interviewer must even have some degree in politics, "international relations", or something of the sort... Since that, she often turns her interviews into almost conversations, by speaking a lot about the subjects in question, and presenting her much informed point-of-views...)
And, for example, in contrast,
I remember another interview made to him, by what appears to be a more "generic subjects" type of journalist, that must have only a degree in journalism, or something close to it, and that interview was much better than the other ones that I saw: http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/snowden-leak-privacy-surveillance-093/
You can't be serious on your last link.
This woman is probably the most annoying interiewer I encountered so far during the last year.