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Free as in Freedom
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
March 29, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
discuss two debates going on in the free and open source software
community. One recent and seemingly inflated, and one long and
confusing.
This show was released on Tuesday 29 March 2011; its
running time is 00:43:18.
Show Notes
Segment 1 (03:12)
●Bradley wrote a blog
post about the Bionic issues that were raised. (03:44)
●On the old oggcast, Karen
and Bradley discussed the Android/Linux system and Bionic
specifically. (04:09)
●Karen mentioned an old oggcast
where permissive vs. copyleft licensing was discussed. (06:19)
●Jake Edge wrote an LWN
article that discussed Bionic (07:58)
●Bradley mentioned Raymond
Nimmer's blog that started the debate (10:52)
●Bradley also mentioned Edward
Naughton's blog post and
paper
on Bionic. (11:38)
●Raymond Nimmer is not David Nimmer, who
is known for writings on copyright (18:10)
●There is now an disturbing group on
identica, which is more disturbing than a tag about
disturbing. (19:15)
●Joe
Brockmeier did some research on Edward Naughton's ties to
Microsoft. (20:05)
●Karen mentioned a
paper on deep legal analysis of header files and on
originality requirements in copyright (24:40)
Segment 2 (26:07)
●Karen wanted to clear up some confusion about the discussion
last episode about the “Open Source” and “Free
Software” terminology.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, mobile, copyright
March 1, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
discussed the Windows Phone 7 Application Store terms and conditions
which prohibit GPL'd and other copylefted software in the application store.
This show was released on Tuesday 1 March 2011; its
running time is 00:38:13.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Karen and Bradley discussed the Microsoft Phone Marketplace
agreement, which was heavily
covered
in
news
and
blogs. (02:50)
●Karen quoted directly from the § 1(l) from the Windows Phone
Marketplace Application Provider Agreement (03:20)
●Bradley credited Jello Biafra with coining the term
“punditocracy”, but it seems to have been
first usedbyCharles
Reynell in The Economist in 1989 and popularized by
Eric Alterman
in his 1992 book, Sound & Fury: The Making of
the Punditocracy.
●Bradley mentioned the brouhaha about
the order of succession after Regan was shot in 1981. (Bradley
incorrectly said 1980 on the show.) (09:47)
●Karen and Bradley previously discussed the Apple Online Store
agreement on FaiF
Episode 0x03.
●Bradley mentioned that the arm
port of Windows 7 isn't even done (21:30)
●According to a Canalys study quoted on
Wikipedia's
Smartphone entry, RIM is only 14% of the market now, when it was
previously much larger. Symbian is still the largest,
surprisingly. (25:21)
●K-9 Mail is a fork
of the last Free Software version of Google's Android Mail
application. (30:21)
●Bradley compared what's happening with Android to the history of
X Windows (31:40)
●Bradley joked about the naming
length controversy for the Windows Phone 7. (33:00)
●Steve
Ballmer strangely kept saying: The operating system is c
alled
Windows
while talking to market analysis back in
July 2010. (36:04)
After the show was recorded, there was an announcement
that Microsoft would allow employees to build their own companies writing
Windows 7 Series Windows Mobile applications.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, microsoft, mobile
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