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Free as in Freedom
October 23, 2014
Summary
Note: Episode 0x5A was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order).
Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-called
“Gamergate” controversy and how it relates to the Free
Software community and a few obvious legal issues.
This show was released on Thursday 23 October 2014; its
running time is 00:55:31.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
●Karen asked if Bradley had heard of the Gamergate
situation. (01:30)
●Matthew Garrett wrote a blog post regarding this topic entitled Actions have
consequences (or: why I'm not fixing Intel's bugs any more)
(10:23)
●Mathew was attacked on
LKML about this blog post (10:50)
●Lennart
Poettering also wrote an essay recently about aggression and attacking
people in Free Software communities. (12:12)
●Karen mentioned the harassment
Kathy Sierra faced in the late 2000s. (13:00)
●Bradley called out Linux Foundation to ask why they tacitly support
the bad behavior by its employees and others in the Linux Project (14:35,
31:10)
●Bradley mentioned that Antti Aumo in his LinuxCon Europe 2011 keynote,
said that a great thing about the Internet of Things is that you can
put a lock on y
our fridge when the wife's on a
diet
. (16:32)
●Bradley mentioned the Eddie Murphy's
Saturday Night Live skit, White Like Me, which
according
to the transcript, originally aired on 1984-12-15 on
SNL. (24:45)
●Bradley mentioned FaiF 0x13, which discussed
torts and why they're important. (29:50)
●Bradley wrote a blog post about Bradley
mentioned his blog post about John Oliver's discussion of the Miss
America Pageant (43:30)
●Bradley suggested that Intel should have instead given the Gamasutra
money to Society
of Women Engineers Scholarship fund. (45:30)
●Karen mentioned the statement
Intel published a statement regarding the situation. (47:10)
Tags: faif, commercial, tort, gender
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
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
January 17, 2012
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the
software freedom community and technology generally.
This show was released on Tuesday 17 January 2012; its
running time is 00:47:17.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
●Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the
software freedom community and technology generally.
●Bradley wrote
a blog post a while back noting that issues of gender inequality
are technology-sector-wide, as shown on
PDF page 10 of this study. However, Bradley incorrectly remembered
the study: in fact, all levels of academic computer science are (23:19)
●Karen got a 5 on our Calculus AB exam, even though her teacher told
her only boys were good at math. Bradley also got a 5 on the Calculus
AB exam. (27:06)
●Bradley believes that Stand and
Deliver. (29:37)
●Bradley is sure there is no Calculus in Good Will
Hunting (30:08)
●Bradley mentioned that S05E11
of American Greed contained an rsync output on a
Debian system and Python DBUS binding C code as “code cracking
examples” (31:00)
●Miguel de
Icaza had a cameo in the file Antitrust.
(33:27)
●Bradley mentioned that Craig Mundie keynoted
OSCON (38:55)
●Bradley mentioned the USENIX/Freenix to Perl Conference to OSCON
history (42:50)
●Karen mentioned the GNOME
Marketing MeetingatFOSDEM
2012. (43:27)
●Karen is speaking at
Linux Conf Australia on 19 January 2012,BradleyisspeakingatScale 10x, the 2012
Southern California Linux Expo (44:16)
Tags: faif, gender
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