Free as in Freedom

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Free as in Freedom

May 31, 2019

0x68: Molly De Blanc at CopyleftConf 2019

Summary

Bradley and Karen enjoy and discuss Molly De Blanc's keynote at the first annual CopyleftConf, entitled The Margins of Software Freedom, followed by an exclusive interview with Molly! This show was released on Friday 31 May 2019; its running time is 00:58:07.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:37)

●Bradley mentioned (without the title) the film, When a Stranger Calls, which is indeed a real movie, not a TV movie, and was from the late 1970s — although Bradley saw it on TV sometime in the 1980s. (02:15)

Segment 1 (04:11)

A recording of Molly De Blanc's keynote at the first annual (2019) CopyleftConf, entitled entitled The Margins of Software Freedom. Slides for Molly's talk are available on her gitlab account.

Segment 2 (20:11)

Bradley and Karen talk about the keynote and set up the interview.

Segment 3 (23:56)

Extended interview with Molly from on site at CopyleftConf 2019!

Segment 4 (34:06)

●Bradley and Karen discuss what ideas Molly's interview got them thinking about. ●Bradley wrote a blog post about Delta's anti-union marketing. (40:50) ●Molly De Blanc is now an employee at the GNOME Foundation and President of the Open Source Initiative (52:53) Tags: faif, GPL, security, social justice March 12, 2019

0x62: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part III)

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 much about software freedom that we 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 June 19, 2014

0x47: Why Are You a Software Freedom Zealot?

Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss why software freedom as a political, social and moral issue is important to each of them personally. This show was released on Thursday 19 June 2014; its running time is 01:09:27.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:36)

●Bradley mentioned that he used to frequently give talks on why software freedom is important to him. There are available on FSF's Audio/Video website three different recordings of that talk, usually titled Software Freedom and the GNU Generation. (01:28) ●Bradley's first distribution was SLS. (18:20) ●Bradley mentioned that OpenStack was denied 501(c)(6) trade association status by the IRS. (37:56) ●Karen mentioned the Cooper Union law suit. (48:40) Tags: faif, social justice Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynchofdanlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. Main Page | License of show and website | Ogg Feed | MP3 Feed Please see the license page for details about the licensing of the show, the content of this website, and the software that runs this website.