Richard Stallman - Working for the public. Universities, software and freedom (Pisa, Italy, 2023) By: Richard Stallman Host(s): Maria Chiara Pievatolo, Marco Calamari, Francesco Potortì Organizer: Department of Political Science, University of Pisa Recorded by: Mediaventi Team, University of Pisa Thanks to: Daniela Tafani, Dario Besseghini, Federico Bianchi, Mediaventi Team (University of Pisa), Bruno Nati (GARR) Date: June 07, 2023 Location: Palazzo Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy Language: English Duration: 2h 33min 32s Copyright © Richard Stallman (speech) License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) 00:00:00 TEDx talk 00:13:47 Maria Chiara Pievatolo (Introduction) 00:17:33 Speech 00:58:40 Marco Calamari (Machine learning systems) 01:04:00 Francesco Potortì (Software in universities) 01:15:48 Q&A 02:24:10 Maria Chiara Pievatolo (Concluding remarks) 02:27:10 Auction Video 1920x1080 WebM VP9/Opus (1.51 GB) It is giving me a bittersweet feeling to have Richard Stallman here today. Sweet, because this time the conference is organized by a couple of political philosophers working at the Department of Political Science. And this is a recognition that software is a kind of language organizing and shaping our world, and not just a technical and business issue. It is about free culture. It is about free speech. And it is a freedom that deserves to be understood and protected, even to the point of hacking copyright like Richard Stallman did. The bitterness comes from the fact that most Italian universities are no longer the cradle of free thinking, because they are using—or they are being used by—proprietary clouds and software, to the point that when we had to switch to remote teaching during the pandemics we were recommended as teachers to use Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom. Now we are using Big Blue Button, that is free software, and as you can see it's working perfectly. --Maria Chiara Pievatolo