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Free as in Freedom
July 18, 2014
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0x49: Why Free Software Phone Doesn't Exist
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, Why the free software phone doesn't exist by Aaron 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)
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)
July 5, 2012
0x2D: FSF's Restricted Boot Paper
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's announcement of FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot, which critiques Red Hat's approach to restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical, Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution.
This show was released on Thursday 5 July 2012; its running time is 00:42:22.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
- Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names. Bradley used FSF's criticism of the term “intellectual property” as an example of why it's important to avoid biased terminology. (02:22)
- Karen suggested that listeners may want to read FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot. (04:00)
- Bradley suggested also reading the Fedora statement and both Canonical, Ltd. statements. (04:37)
- Bradley and Karen mentioned the many blog posts Matthew Garrett made about UEFI are worth reading in sequence to learn more about this issue. (13:21)
- Bradley mentioned that FSF collaborated with the EFF on the broadcast flag issue. (25:40)
- Alan Cox made some critical posts toward Matthew and the Red Hat policy. (20:50)
- Bradley mentioned this Ancient Aliens from the History channel. (39:15)