Interviews with Eric Raymond, Richard Stallman, and Mark Shuttleworth. These videos are from the "Go Open" project.

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Interview with Eric S. Raymond - 22min total

Eric Raymond was one of the original contributers to the GNU project and later worked with the group that created the title "Open Source" to describe Free Software in a way that was business saavy in order to help Free Software really move into the mainstream.

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Interview with Richard M. Stallman - 20min total

Richard Stallman is the originator of the GNU project, the Free Software foundation, created the General Public License, and is arguably personally responsible for creating the entire Free Software revolution. If it were not for him taking a stand at the time he did, and the volume of his contributions to the Free Software ecosystem, we would not have GNU/Linux or anything like it today.

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Interview with Mark Shuttleworth - 13min total

Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Canonical Ltd, the company behind the Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux. He put up several hundred thousand dollars of his own money to start the Ubuntu Foundation and then deposited the same amount in a fund the foundation can draw from if Canonical fails as a business venture. Much like Red Hat, Canonical has programmers that work on certain parts of the distribution as well as generating revenue from selling support for Ubuntu.

Where the two companies differ is in the type of user that their distribution is aimed at. Simply put, Red Hat GNU/Linux is aimed at the business and enterprise end, while Ubuntu GNU/Linux is aimed at everyone. Ubuntu provides a well integrated, secure repository of Free Software for users of their distribution to pull from and encourages the community to help to a degree that has never been provided by any commercial entity before. Much of the development work from Canonical has been to simply come up with tools for the community to enable better collaboration between the global members of the Free Software developer community.

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Note: The video quality of these is quite low. But as these are some of the people that are at, or have been at "ground zero" in Free Software, we thought that having these interviews available to listen to would be worth the inconvenience of the grainy video.