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March 27, 2019
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0x64: Our Producer Dan Lynch Interviewed at Copyleft Conf 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 night?
(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
You 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.
March 20, 2019
0x63: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part IV)
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.
February 19, 2019
0x61: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part II)
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)
January 13, 2019
0x60: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part I)
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)
September 21, 2016
0x5D: Conference Report, 1st Half of 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 keynote at LibrePlanet 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)
June 4, 2015
0x56: … & We're Back!
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)
March 3, 2015
0x55: Nick Coghlan at LCA 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.
January 29, 2015
0x54: Carol Smith at LCA 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!
October 9, 2014
0x4F: Linus Torvalds' Comments at DebConf 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 Torvalds at DebConf 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)
June 13, 2013
0x3E: Mozilla - Licensing in the Trenches
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.
May 28, 2013
0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux
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).
September 27, 2012
Episode 0x32: Matthew Garrett on UEFI at LinuxCon North America 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)
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)
August 14, 2012
0x2F: OSCON and GUADEC 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)
June 19, 2012
0x2C: FOSDEM 2012: Laurent's Open Licences before European Courts
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)
May 22, 2012
0x29: Richard Fontana at Linux Collaboration Summit 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.
April 25, 2012
0x27: FOSDEM 2012: Randal's Legal Hygiene
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)
March 13, 2012
0x24: App Store Panel
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 transcript or download an mp3 of the audio. (43:27)
February 28, 2012
0x23: Is Copyleft Being Framed?
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)
February 14, 2012
0x22: Elder's Methods of FOSS Activism
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)
January 31, 2012
Episode 0x21: Inspirational Conference Talks
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 listening. 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)