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Free as in Freedom
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
March 12, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen have the last pre-talk installment of discussing the
preparation for 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 third of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record
their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this
particular episode, they discuss the issue of letting others use
proprietary software on your behalf, the problem of relying too much on
that, and then finish up discussing with how they'll include this
material into the final talk.
This show was released on Tuesday 12 March 2019; its
running time is 00:28:00.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Karen discussed the idea of a shabbos goy, and the
analogy between that and allowing other people use proprietary on your
behalf. (02:58)
●Bradley and Karen discussed that it is equally abhorrent to ask
someone else to use proprietary software for you as it is to use
yourself, since someone's software freedom is compromised in any event
(06:58)
●Bradley mentioned that he had previously applied to serve on the
USA's Internal Revenue Service (IRS)'s Electronic
Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). Bradley mentioned how
sadly the IRS typically accepts
people from proprietary software companies like Intuit but has to his
knowledge never accepted anyone involved in FOSS software for IRS form
preparation (10:02)
●Bradley mentioned the Free Software PDF fill-in tools evince and flpsed (12:24)
●Karen stated that Conservancy's policy is that: We care so muc
h
about software freedom that w
e would rather use proprietary
software than
have someone else
lose their software freedom
. (15:20)
●Karen mentioned that her Linux Conf
Australia 2019, Right to Not
Broadcast, which you can view online. (22:18)
Segment 1 (23:15)
●Bradley mentioned the A-Team line, “I love it when
a plan comes together”. (23:23)
●Bradley and Karen generally discuss the final plans for incorporating
this material into the keynote
Tags: faif, FOSDEM, social justice
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
December 24, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen play and discuss
Stefano
Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal
issues from a radical community angle that he gave 12:00
European/Central time on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014.
This show was released on Wednesday 24 December 2014; its
running time is 01:04:50.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:02:38)
Stefano
Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal
issues from a radical community angle . You can watch
the video instead of listening to our audio and/or follow
along with Zach's slides.
Segment 2 (00:53:17)
●Please note: Bradley and Karen recorded
these comments before the init system coupling
referendum completed, which is why Karen and Bradley don't discuss
it. However, their comments about the Debian democratic process are
highly relevant to the recent vote. Also, Bradley discussed his views on
that specific issue as a guest co-host on Linux Outlaws,
Episode 368.
●Bradley and Karen discussed SPI as Debian's fiscal sponsor
and used a few terms like grantor/grantee (01:01:20)
Tags: faif, licensing, copyright, Debian, FOSDEM, trademarks
December 11, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen play and discuss Pam
Chestek's talk entitled Why
Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free that she gave on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014.
This show was released on Thursday 11 December 2014; its
running time is 01:10:00.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
●You can donate now to send Producer Dan Lynch
to a Free Software conference. Donations will be made to Conservancy
and any proceeds raised beyond the amount needed to send Dan to a
conference will support Conservancy generally. (05:30)
●Dan will of course need to follow Conservancy's
travel policy since Conservancy will fund his travel. (06:50)
●Bradley discussed the backstory on the Groupon attempt
to steal GNOME's name. GNOME Foundation had
to go public to raise funds to fight Groupon (10:05)
Segment 1 (00:13:26)
Pam
Chestek gives a talk entitled Why
Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free. You can watch
the video instead of listening to our audio and follow
along with Pam's slides.
Segment 2 (01:00:37)
●Bradley mentioned Pam's talk from the previous
year, which was played on 0x3C. (01:01:32)
●Bradley mentioned that GPLv3§7 allows
for removal of additional restrictions that abuse that clause of GPLv3.
(01:04:24)
Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, FOSDEM, trademarks
July 18, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, Why the free software phone doesn't existbyAaron Williamson given at
FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3
February 2013.
This show was released on Friday 18 July 2014; its
running time is 01:08:30.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (04:06)
Aaron's slides area available.
Segment 2 (56:41)
●Bradley mentioned dakota
imaging where he used to work. (1:02:15)
dacotag imaging
●Karen mentioned Aaron's
OSCON 2010 talk (but we incorrectly said it was 2009). (1:04:35)
Tags: faif, mobile, FOSDEM, Restricted Boot
October 17, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss John
Sullivan's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled State
of the GNUnion.
This show was released on Thursday 17 October 2013; its
running time is 01:19:37.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:01:58)
The slides
for John's talk are available, and the source
of those slides is available too.
Segment 1 (00:54:31)
●Bradley mentioned RMS'
essay, Who Does That Server Really Serve?
(01:08:55)
Segment 2 (01:14:53)
Private
Internet Access became a new GNOME Advisory Board Member.
Tags: faif, GNU, GPL, FSF, non-profit, copyright, FOSDEM
July 17, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss The
panel discussion on the GNU Affero General Public License from
FOSDEM 2013.
This show was released on Wednesday 17 July 2013; its
running time is 01:28:47.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:38)
●Bradley asked for donations again to Conservancy's NPO accounting
software campaign and Karen asked for donations to GNOME's Privacy Campaign.
Segment 1 (00:04:50)
This is the Panel
Discussion: GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 from
FOSDEM 2013. The speakers, in the order their voices are heard, are Tom
Marble (introduction), Richard
Fontana (moderator), Bradley
M. Kuhn, Eileen
Evans, and Christopher
Allan Webber.
Segment 2 (01:06:47)
●Bradley mentioned the phrase Gi
ve me convenience or give me
de
ath
, which is from a title
of the Dead Kennedys album he suggested applied to the selection of
proprietary software (01:10:10)
●Bradley mentioned RMS'
recent update to his Who does that server really serve?
essay. (01:11:30)
●Bradley mentioned his
blog post on doing VoIP encryption with Free Software. (01:14:04)
●Bradley mentioned his talk entitled The
Affero GPLv3: Why It Exists & Who It's For? at the Southern California Linux Expo
11x. The slides are
available and the sources for
the slides are available. (01:17:30)
Tags: faif, FSF, FOSDEM, AGPL
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 7, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Pamela
Chestek's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled How
to Share a Trademark.
This show was released on Tuesday 7 May 2013; its
running time is 01:23:47.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 0 (00:02:05)
Pam gave us slides,
but it's all in one big SVG.
Segment 2 (00:55:10)
●The talk that Bradley mentioned was this talk that Karen gave at Linux
Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012; he was unable to find a
recording. (57:04)
●Note that most of the time the word source
was used in the talk
and Karen's comments, it means origin
, not source
code
. (01:05:55)
●Bradley mentioned this Planet
Money story about the 5¢ coke. (01:21:37)
Tags: faif, licensing, FOSDEM, trademarks
April 11, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Simon
Phipps' and Amanda
Brock's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled Should
We Embrace App Stores?.
This show was released on Thursday 11 April 2013; its
running time is 01:11:25.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:03:03)
●Simon and Amanda used no slides during their talk.
●Amanda misquotes Bradley at 07:30. Bradley said: An unenforced
copyleft is the moral equivale
nt of a permissive license
, not that you
give a license automatically not by enforcing. You can listen to FaiF Episode 0x38 to
verify.
Segment 1 (00:49:35)
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk.
Tags: licensing, FOSDEM
April 3, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gabriel
Holloway's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled FOSS
code goes in and never comes out: The Challenge of Sandboxed Proprietary
Cloud Services.
This show was released on Wednesday 3 April 2013; its
running time is 01:24:33.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:05:48)
The speaker's that you hear are:
●Gabriel Holloway, who gives the talk
●Till
Jaeger asks the first question.
●A few other questions are asked, but we're unsure who the speakers
are.
●Tom
Marble, asks a question later.
Unfortunately, Gabe didn't provide us with slides.
Segment 2 (00:52:25)
●Bradley mentioned the Berne
Convention on Copyright. (01:07:19)
●Karen mentioned Cooper Union and how they are
in danger of running out of money for their full tuition
scholarships. (01:10:00)
●Bradley looked but couldn't find the NPR story about terms of use. (01:19:37)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, FOSDEM, AGPL
March 26, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Till
Jaeger's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled What
is a derivative work under European Copyright Law?.
This show was released on Tuesday 26 March 2013; its
running time is 01:13:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:31)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 2 (00:02:41)
The speaker's that you hear are:
●Tom
Marble, introduces the talk, and asks one of the questions.
●
Till
Jaeger, who gives the talk
The slides
for Till Jaeger's talk are available.
Segment 2 (00:49:11)
●Bradley and Karen discuss Till's talk.
●Clarence
Thomas spoke the first time in the Supreme Court. Bradley said that
he said it did n
ot
, but apparently he actually said he did
not
. (59:49)
●Bradley scanned
in his Brussels airport train ticket that had his notes on it, where
you can read noa push caa
. (01:06:40)
●Bradley mentioned the phrase Elvis has
left the building. (01:07:15)
Tags: faif, copyright, FOSDEM
July 17, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Mike
Linksvayer's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Creative
Commons 4.0 licenses and other opportunities for FLOSS/free culture
legal/policy intersections from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 17 July 2012; its
running time is 00:59:30.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen suggest that you use the slides below when
listening to Mike's talk.
Segment 1 (05:51)
Mike Linksvayer's slides for this talk are available in PDF
format and in ODP
format.
Segment 2 (33:43)
Segment 3 (34:25)
A special licensing message from Mike Linksvayer.
Segment 4 (35:09)
●Karen mentioned Bradley's favorite movie, It's
a Wonderful Life.
●Bradley mentioned Asheesh Laroia,
who appears to never blogged about his CC/credit-card-thief freenode
confusion story. (48:00)
●Bradley mentioned Fontana's Copyleft.next project
. (50:00)
●Bradley mentioned the ST:TNG
episode, Unification,
Part II, although he kept calling it Reuni
fication
during the episode. Please don't write in to complain; he realized the error after recording. (54:39)
Tags: faif, Creative Commons, FOSDEM
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 8, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Loïc
Dachary's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Can
for-profit companies enforce copyleft without becoming corrupt like
MySQL AB? from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 8 May 2012; its
running time is 00:56:01.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen discuss FOSDEM again.
Segment 1 (10:10)
Unfortunately, we don't have Loïc's slides.
Segment 2 (32:03)
Bradley and Karen comment on Loïc's talk.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, FOSDEM
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
April 13, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Michael
Meeks's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Risks
and Benefits of Copyright Assignment from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Friday 13 April 2012; its
running time is 00:47:19.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen introduce Michael's talk.
Segment 1 (01:56)
Michael's slides
are available from faif.us and from his
blog post on the talk.
Segment 2 (26:47)
●Bradley mentioned GNU
Mediagoblin as an example of a true upstream multi-copyright-holder
AGPLv3'd
project. (28:10)
●Bradley mentioned that LibreOffice is “wealthy” as well
by Michael Meeks standards, given their successful
fundraisers. (29:38)
●Bradley mentioned the Desktop
Summit panel that he and Michael were on and Karen moderated.
(34:06)
●Bradley and
Michael co-authored (with Vincent Untz) the GNOME Copyright Assignment
Guidelines. (35:30)
●FSF was
previously supportive of MySQL AB back in 2002, but Michael also
used to support the Sun JCA. (38:20)
Tags: faif, licensing, copyright, 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
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