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Free as in Freedom
March 27, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen interview their own producer, Dan Lynch, on site at Copyleft Conf 2019.
This show was released on Wednesday 27 March 2019; its
running time is 00:36:00.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:46)
●Karen now teaches teaches a
course at Columbia University. (03:40)
●In addition to being the producer of Free as in Freedom,
Dan Lynch was the host of Rat
Hole Radio, the co-host of Linux
Outlaws, and currently co-hosts Hollywood
Outlaws. (04:30)
Segment 1 (5:19)
●Dan helps co-organize Oggcamp
which is having its tenth-anniversary event on Saturday 19
October 2019. (08:00)
●Bradley mentioned the phrase from IT Crowd
quote: Did you see
that ludicrous display last nig
ht?
(11:08)
●Dan talked about The
Manchester Ship Canal. (13:16)
●Dan promoted Hollywood
Outlaws where he and his co-host Fab talk about Bosch.
(23:18)
●Dan promoted his own podcast about comics called Tales of the
Unattested. (23:27)
●Dan Lynch has a personal website,
which has his blog. (23:55)
●Bradley referenced the phrase Y
ou
are no Jack Kennedy
which was stated by
Bentsen on Wednesday 5 October 1988 during the VP debate between
Quayle and Bentsen for the 1988 USA Presidential campaign. Details and
background of this are explained by NBC in
this story. (26:30)
Segment 2 (28:23)
Bradley and Karen briefly dissect the interview with Dan.
Segment 3 (32:22)
Karen and Bradley mention that they'll discuss the Linux Foundation
initiative, “Community
Bridge” in the next episode. If you want a preview Bradley and
Karen's thoughts, you can read
their blog post about Linux Foundation's “Community Bridge”
initiative.
Tags: faif, conferences, copyleft
March 20, 2019
Summary
In their final installment regarding their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can
Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of
Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software,
you listeners can hear the final product — a recording of the
actual FOSDEM keynote. Afterwards, Karen and Bradley compare notes on
what went wrong and what went right (but mostly what went wrong) during
the talk.
This show was released on Wednesday 20 March 2019; its
running time is 01:10:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Bradley and Karen talk logistics of how the talk is embedded in the audio.
Segment 1 (00:04:14)
The audio in this segment taken directly from the video of Karen and
Bradley's FOSDEM
2019 opening keynote, entitled Can Anyone Live in Full Software
Freedom Today? Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid
Proprietary Software, which was given . If you'd rather watch the video, you
can do so via FSODEM's video site in either webm
format or in mp4
format.
Segment 2 (00:46:01)
●Karen mentioned “time
shifting”, which was permitted for the public, despite
accusations of copyright infringement, in the Betamax
case. (55:10)
Segment 3 (01:05:31)
Karen and Bradley mention that the next episode will be an interview
with Dan Lynch recorded at CopyleftConf 2019.
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
February 19, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote
at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom
Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary
Software. This episode is the second of three episodes where
Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote
address. In this particular episode, they discuss the golden age in
history when they used very little proprietary software, and then discuss
the beginning of their personal Dark Ages of using some proprietary
software.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 February 2019; its
running time is 00:35:23.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley mentioned The Who's destruction
of their instruments and his discomfort with it in relation to
computers. (06:10)
●Bradley and Karen mentioned their long-time use of the HTC Dream (07:30)
●Bradley mentioned that he helped start the Replicant project, but his
primary contribution was its name. (08:24)
Segment 1 (12:34)
●Karen mentioned the pinball
machine that she owns. (12:50)
●Bradley mentioned the Dead Kennedys album,
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death. (25:10)
●Karen and Bradley discuss proprietary Javascript. (28:20)
●This is the screen you
get if you attempt to use Google maps without Javascript. (28:45)
Karen was wrong about this image no longer appearing. The image linked
to here is from the day before our FOSDEM keynote was delivered. (29:55)
●Bradley and Karen recorded this episode while on site at LinuxConf
Australia 2019. They had dinner the night this was recorded at a
restaurant called, Dux Dine in
Christchurch, NZ. There were, in fact,
ducks dining at Dux Dine. (35:07)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
January 13, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of
preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone
Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But
Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the first of
multiple episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation
conversations for this keynote address.
This show was released on Sunday 13 January 2019; its
running time is 00:36:37.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan to do prep for their FOSDEM keynote
“on air” as part of FaiF broadcasts.
Segment 1 (07:13)
●Bradley read out the abstract from Bradley
and Karen's keynote, Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?
Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary
Software at FOSDEM 2019. (circa 10:00)
●This started for Bradley with the HTC Dream, and Karen's struggle
started with her heart device (10:42)
●Bradley and Karen discussed how they plan to organize their FOSDEM
2019 joint keynote.
●Bradley mentioned that if Karen and Bradley recorded an episode of the
two of them reading Lorem Ipsum that
listeners would likely still listen. Karen disagreed. (33:05)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
September 21, 2016
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's conference trips and
presentations during the first half of 2016.
This show was released on Wednesday 21 September 2016; its
running time is 00:53:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
●Bradley attended and spoke at FOSDEM 2016 and LinuxConf Australia 2016
(03:10)
●Bradley and Karen co-coordinated the FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy
Issues DevRoom (04:43)
●Tom Marble did an interview-format
discussion with Richard M. Stallman at FOSDEM 2016 (04:55)
●Bradley gave two talks at FOSDEM 2016,
Copyleft For the Next Decade: A Comprehensive Plan for the GPL
and A
Beautiful Build: Releasing Linux Source Correctly (06:40)
●Richard
Fontana gave a talk at FOSDEM 2016 entitled Open source
foundations: threat or menace? (08:15)
●The Doge
take on FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom was Much
politics. Many peoples.
(11:00)
●There was a Conservancy Supporter event at the Novotel
Grand Place in Brussels at FOSDEM 2016. (14:00)
●Bradley gave a talk at
LCA 2016. (15:20)
●Karen gave
the closing keynoteatLibrePlanet 2016, entitled
Companies, free software, and you . (16:54)
●Karen Sandler gave a talk
at the Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux Conference 2016 entitled
Tales of Enforcement (27:00)
●Karen gave a talk at
at
the Postgres Conference in New York. (34:26)
●Bradley and Karen were both on a panels at OSCON. (35:00)
●Bradley and Karen flipped burgers (vegan ones and otherwise) at the OSCON 2016 party. (39:30)
●Bradley gave a keynote at OSS
2016. (45:05)
●Bradley spoke at two user groups in Norway as well. He hasn't made
the blog post he mentioned yet, but plans to. (45:50)
●Karen mentioned Episode 0x4A which
discussed the OpenStack CLA debate. (50:50)
Tags: faif, OSCON, conferences, FOSDEM, Conservancy
June 4, 2015
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the VMware
lawsuit that Software Freedom Conservancy is funding.
This show was released on Thursday 4 June 2015; its
running time is 00:33:52.
Show Notes
●Bradley and Karen discuss the lawsuit
that Christoph Hellwig filed. (07:37)
●Karen mentioned her LibrePlanet
keynote about the VMware lawsuit. (21:30)
●Bradley's talk at LinuxConf Australia
2015, Considering The Future of Copyleft, is available
online. (22:04)
●Bradley mentioned the discussion on pump.io about NPR fundraisers. (24:23)
●Bradley mentioned a Debian
8 release party at LinuxFest Northwest, which Microsoft didn't invite
him to, since he wasn't willing to give Microsoft his contact info for
marketing purposes. (29:16)
●Karen and Bradley promoted the Conservancy supporter
program (31:40)
Tags: GPL, Debian, conferences, copyleft
March 3, 2015
Summary
Bradley and Karen interview Nick Coghlan, who works onn
development and test infrastructure for Red Hat and is heavily involved
with the Python community.
This show was released on Tuesday 3 March 2015; its
running time is 00:40:12.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Bradley and Karen interviewed Nick Coghlan who works for
Red Hat and contributes to various Open Source and Free Software projects
such as Python. Nick discussed his work on the infrastructure team at Red
Hat, and his advocacy of Kallithea
for use for the
CPython project.
Tags: faif, conferences, Kallithea
January 29, 2015
Summary
Bradley and Karen interview Carol
Smith, Programs and Open Source Community Manager of Google
Summer of Code about the program and its policies and procedures.
This show was released on Thursday 29 January 2015; its
running time is 00:39:39.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Bradley encourages those who attend FOSDEM 2015 to attend sign up to attend the
Supporter Night Event on 30 January 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
Segment 1 (00:50:11)
More Show notes for this one coming soon!
Tags: faif, conferences, Google Summer of Code
October 9, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss and criticize comments made by Linus
Torvalds at his Q&A during DebConf
2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014.
This show was released on Thursday 9 October 2014; its
running time is 00:38:51.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen discuss the Q&A
with Linus TorvaldsatDebConf
2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014. (01:09)
Segment 1 (04:30)
●Ryan Lortie asked about an offensive public statement
Linus Torvalds made on 6 July 2012. (05:04)
●Bradley mentioned that Linus Torvalds argued Red Hat
was kowtowing to Microsoft using offensive language. (07:57)
●Karen mentioned that Linus
called GNOME an unholy mess
. (19:05)
Tags: faif, GPL, FSF, licensing, Debian, gender, conferences
June 13, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gervase
Markham's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled Mozilla: Licensing In The Trenches.
This show was released on Thursday 13 June 2013; its
running time is 01:11:55.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
●Bradley encouraged listeners to Conservancy's campaign for
non-profit accounting software.
(02:10)
●Bradley mentioned his
2009 blog post encouraging people to donate to Free Software charities (02:50)
●Karen asked people to donate
to the GNOME Foundation privacy campaign (04:11)
Segment 1 (00:04:57)
Gerv's slides
from his FOSDEM 2013 talk can be downloaded from FOSDEM's website.
Segment 2 (00:51:48)
Bradley and Karen discuss Gerv's talk.
Tags: Creative Commons, licensing, non-profit, copyright, IBM, conferences, FOSDEM
May 28, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist
comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013.
This show was released on Tuesday 28 May 2013; its
running time is 00:39:23.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
●Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference behavior back in
Episode 0x04.
●Bradley had blogged a few years ago about the
issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this study showing
the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17)
●Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary
software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58)
●Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like
a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference (06:13)
●There is indeed a Project named
PyCorn. (09:38)
●Bradley mentioned the Planet Money
story about Online Pharmacies but he couldn't find the original audio
of the longer piece that ends with the phrase Stay
Shady, Internet
(21:30)
●Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most
dangerous thing because everything is in it, which is actually from Heart of
Darkness by Joesph Conrad. (23:40)
●Bradley mentioned that a keynoter at
LinuxCon Europe made sexist comments back in 2011. (30:02)
●Bradley and Karen encouraged listeners to promote the GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for
Women (31:20)
●Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's
comment at LinuxCon North America in 2009 (32:02).
Tags: faif, gender, conferences
September 27, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett's talk,
Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot World talk from LinuxCon North
America 2012.
This show was released on Thursday 27 September 2012; its
running time is 01:05:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Bradley mentioned that people at LinuxCon North America 2012 were talking
about this article, wherein it states 51% of survey respondents believe
[bad] weather can impact cloud computing. Bradley and Karen
pointed out all the many ways that it can, such as if your services
come via satellite links. (02:10)
●Bradley mentioned Matthew's talk might be best listened to
before our earlier FaiFCast 0x2d
about UEFI and Restricted Boot, as Matthew's talk is a very good
introduction to that material (07:01)
Segment 1 (08:43)
The slides
from Matthew Garrett's LinuxCon North America 2012 talk, Linux in
a UEFI Secure Boot World are available.
Segment 2 (51:35)
●Karen song a part of one of the OpenBSD songs, E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix). (01:00:35)
●Bradley mentioned Theo
de Raadt's comments regarding restricted boot. (01:00:44)
Tags: faif, conferences, Restricted Boot
August 14, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC.
This show was released on Tuesday 14 August 2012; its
running time is 00:39:53.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory
Board. (02:20)
●Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting
rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI.
Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for
GNOME. (03:50)
●Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now
that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30)
●Bradley received an O'Reilly
Open Source Award at OSCON 2012. Bradley blogged an acceptance
speech for the award. (08:50)
●The
Python award and the Perl White Camel
award is also given at OSCON. (12:35)
●Karen mentioned FLOSS
Foundations, and asked if there was a meeting at OSCON. Bradley
mentioned it had been primarily rolled into Jono Bacon's CLS
conference. (15:10)
Segment 1 (17:56)
●Bradley wrote in a post about the GUADEC 2010 conference to note
how welcoming the community was. Karen described GUADEC 2012 as very
similar in nature. (21:25)
●Karen mentioned her husband Mike had a similar reaction to GUADEC
2012 that Bradley had to GUADEC 2010. (23:50)
Tags: faif, OSCON, conferences
June 19, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Philippe
Laurent's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Open
Licences before European Courts from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 June 2012; its
running time is 00:44:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen and Bradley mention there is one talk remaining after this one
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 1 (03:04)
Philippe's slides
are available from faif.us. Note: the slides are licensed
differently than the show: they are CC-By-SA-3.0-Unported (rather than -USA).
Segment 2 (32:22)
●Bradley mentioned FSF France's
involvement with the AFPA case. (37:30)
Tags: faif, GPL, copyright, conferences, FOSDEM
May 22, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard
Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2012 talk, The Decline of
the GPL, and What To Do About It.
This show was released on Tuesday 22 May 2012; its
running time is 01:19:27.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen mentioned a legal summit
where Richard and Karen spoke; the same event where the organizers said
having Bradley speak would be the same as having the caterers
speak.
Segment 1 (04:46)
Fontana's slides for
this talk are available on Fontana's website.
Note that this talk is a longer version of
Ricahrd
Fontana's FOSDEM 2012 talk, The
(possible) decline of the GPL, and what to do about it from
the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 2 (57:24)
Bradley and Karen discuss Fontana's talk.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright, Richard Fontana, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Oracle, conferences
April 25, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Allison
Randal's FOSDEM 2012 talk, FLOSSing
for Good Legal Hygiene: Stories from the Trenches from the
FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Wednesday 25 April 2012; its
running time is 01:04:56.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley talked about the #faif IRC conversation regarding hot milk recipe and its
copyright. (01:54)
Segment 1 (07:10)
Allison's slides
are available from faif.us.
Segment 2 (35:00)
●Karen and Bradley discussed the insanely
complicated poster that Eclipse developers have to put on their walls
to know how to accept patches (37:40)
●RMS's GNU
Project essay talks about the Qt problem. (39:16)
●Bradley mentioned Chris Hertel's
appearance on Linux Outlaws.(44:25)
●Karen mentioned The
Scientific American article entitled Secret Computer
Code Threatens Science. (54:00)
●Bradley mentioned Roland McGrath
(56:44)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, conferences, FOSDEM
March 13, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on
Application Stores, moderated by Richard
Fontana, with Giovanni
Battista Gallus, Bradley
M. Kuhn, and Hugo Roy
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 13 March 2012; its
running time is 00:47:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
Karen and Bradley introduce the panel.
Segment 1 (02:15)
This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't
completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in
places.
Segment 2 (35:04)
●Bradley mentioned This
American Life, Episode 454, that covered issues of labor that is
abused to build our electronics. You can read
a transcriptordownload
an mp3 of the audio. (43:27)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
February 28, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss John Sullivan's talk
entitled Is Copyleft Being Framed? from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 28 February 2012; its
running time is 00:56:19.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Dave Neary wrote an
article based on his FOSDEM talk, and we're trying our best to fix
the audio and have a FaiFCast of his talk, but it may not be
salvagable.
Segment 1 (06:35)
●Follow along with John's slides
from his FOSDEM talk.
Segment 1 (37:23)
●John referenced the source Black Duck
numbers for which there is no methodology posted (38:30)
●Bradley mentioned Chris
DiBona's keynote at OSCON 2010. (39:14)
●John mentioned the FLOSS Mole project in
his talk. (42:50)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
February 14, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Ambjörn Elder's talk
entitled Methods
of FOSS Activism from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 14 February 2012; its
running time is 00:44:44.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen summarize some of the logistics of FOSDEM.
Segment 1 (08:08)
You can follow along with Ambjörn's slides for his talk while you listen.
Segment 2 (24:04)
●Bradley mentioned Terry
Bollinger's report,
Use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the
U.S. Department of Defense. (26:13)
●Karen quoted the USA DoD in her Killed
by Code paper. (28:04)
●EFF
has engaged lobbyist in the past on some issues. (29:58)
●Bradley mentioned Noam
Chomsky's point regarding concision.
(35:32)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
January 31, 2012
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Jacob Appelbaum's talk at Linux Conf
Australia 2012, as well as other conference talks.
This show was released on Tuesday 31 January 2012; its
running time is 00:38:58.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley spoke at SCALE, but the talk was very similar to the talk given on 0x18. (07:15)
●Karen's talk at LCA was a longer version of the talk from 0x15 she gave at
OSCON. Listeners should write in if they want Karen's longer talk
to be a show (07:30).
●Bradley will try to record some
of the talks from the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012 (07:55)
●Bradley mentioned the
Red Dwarf episode, Legion where Rimmer says:
Thank you for listen
ing. Oh, additional: sorry to
take up your
valuable time.
Sorry. Thank you. Sorry. Bye.
Bye. Sorry. Thank
you. Thank
you. Thank you.
(12:12)
●Bradley asked if the crickets in Australia sang Jump Around, since
Karen said they jump around (15:45)
Segment 0 (18:51)
●Karen liked Jacob
Appelbaum's keynote at Linux Conf Australia 2012 (19:20)
●Bradley mentioned Harald Welte's
blog post about running his own email server (23:45)
●Bradley mentioned Ken Thompson's
bug (34:03)
Tags: faif, security, conferences
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