pi Seniors In Isolation / Sheltering In Place In India / Pianist, Composer, And MC Kev Choice By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 00:15:39 +0000 How are seniors are coping in this time of isolation? We'll hear how non-profits and an army of volunteers in the Bay Area are working to relieve the anxiety. Then, we continue checking in with reporters around the globe on the coronavirus. Today, we're going to India. And, Oakland pianist and MC, Kev Choice shares the spiritual dimension of his music. Full Article
pi Home Baked: How Pot Brownies Brought Some Relief During The AIDS Epidemic By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:48:46 +0000 The coronavirus is on all of our minds, and for some, it brings back memories of another public health crisis, when the federal government was slow to respond and communities had to take care of each other: the AIDS epidemic. Full Article
pi Spiritual Surgery By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT After suffering three major health challenges that nearly took his life, Dan found Amazing Facts. He was especially interested in learning what the Bible taught about health. Because people like you give, Dan was able to turn his life around completely. Your gifts can literally make a life or death difference. Please save another soul for eternity! Full Article
pi Michael Flynn Pleaded Guilty. Why Is The Justice Department Dropping The Charges? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:57:00 +0000 Why is the government seeking to drop charges against Michael Flynn even though he pleaded guilty — in two admissions in court — to committing the crime at issue? The short answers: The Justice Department is giving him a break. And Flynn has played his cards well. The long answer: It's a long story. The deal Flynn admitted to lying to the FBI about conversations he had had with Russia's then-ambassador to the United States as he and the rest of President-elect Donald Trump's camp waited in the wings early in 2017. That case appeared clear. But the former Army lieutenant general also had been involved with other enterprises that might have resulted in more charges — including undisclosed foreign lobbying — and his deal with prosecutors swept that off the table. It also apparently avoided prospective charges for Flynn's son. Flynn and his attorneys considered the deal to be the least bad way out of the jam. "My guilty plea and agreement to cooperate with the special counsel's office Full Article
pi COMIC: Hospitals Turn To Alicia Keys, U2 And The Beatles To Sing Patients Home By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 11:00:00 +0000 Dr. Grace Farris is chief of hospital medicine at Mount Sinai West in Manhattan. She also writes a monthly comics column in the Annals of Internal Medicine called "Dr Mom." You can find her on Instagram @coupdegracefarris . Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. Full Article
pi What You Need To Know: Keeping Small Town Newspapers Alive By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:48:00 +0000 Georgia Public Broadcasting’s new series What You Need To Know: Coronavirus provides succinct, fact-based information to help you get through the coronavirus pandemic with your health and sanity intact. The news industry is being hit hard by the economic downturn triggered by the pandemic. One Georgia paper struggling is The Walton Tribune in Monroe. It’s been around since 1900, and prints twice a week. Since the start of the pandemic, the paper has had to cut salaries to avoid layoffs. Publisher and editor David Clemons tells GPB's Virginia Prescott he hopes to eventually return those salaries to normal. Full Article
pi Despite 100K COVID-19 Tests in 10 Days, Georgia Lags In Mass Testing By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:57:34 +0000 The Georgia Department of Public Health reached its goal of testing 100,000 individuals in 10 days, but the state is still behind on mass testing. Full Article
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pi Factors reshaping the mobile app economy By feeds.mobilemarketer.com Published On :: March 17, 2017 By Robert WildnerAdvertisers are starting to invest more in finding quality users for their apps – those who will either make purchases or engage with the app long enough to consume ads. Full Article
pi Childcare Supply Nonprofit, Helping Mamas, Scales Up To Meet Increased Demand During COVID-19 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 17:16:36 +0000 Another cog in the supply chain disrupted by the pandemic: diapers. And as struggling families with young children face more challenges to making ends meet, one local group has stepped up to help. Just over five years ago, Jamie Lackey was a social worker, nonprofit professional and mother, when she noticed gaps in services for families in need, particularly when it came to baby supplies. Financial assistance programs like SNAP, for example, don’t allow for purchasing diapers and other essentials. Full Article
pi From Pitbulls To Political Humor, 5 OST Segments For Your Week By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 20:58:44 +0000 From pit bulls to political humor and feminist literature to Folsom State Prison, we’ve got five more stories from the On Second Thought archive to help you weather another Monday. 1) One Man's Mission To Protect 'The Dog America Loves To Hate' This past January, we interviewed Jason Flatt, founder of the Dallas, Georgia-based “ Friends of the Forlorn” Pitbull Rescue . Flatt moved to Georgia after a family tragedy and faced his grief by adopting a pitbull puppy named Angelo. He was inspired to create a sanctuary for pitbulls, which have been widely stereotyped as violent. His organization has become nationally-renowned for its open arms and willingness to take on the most disadvantaged dogs. 2) Rebels and Ramblers: New Ken Burns 'Country Music' Documentary Ken Burns has won acclaim for his documentary work covering wars, disasters, and social movements. His most recent work, “ Country Music, ” aired on PBS in September of last year. We sat down with writer and producer Dayton Duncan to Full Article
pi Money and Happiness (Rebroadcast) By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 20:44:06 +0000 The idea that money doesn’t make you happy is easy to get behind if you have it, but if you don’t it’s a hard one to buy into (pun intended). Yet the correlation to money and happiness is more complicated then one might think. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art... Full Article Two Guys on Your Head audio happiness money podcast psychology Science
pi Flip-Flopping By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:38:15 +0000 Last week’s conversation on editing left us thinking, maybe one reason why people are hesitant to edit their work is that they might be seen as going back on their ideas, or flip-flopping. In this week’s edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about why flip-flopping is seen... Full Article Two Guys on Your Head audio editing flip flopping podcast psychology
pi Money and Happiness (Update) By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:55:19 +0000 A few months ago, we rebroadcast an episode on Money and Happiness. The show focused on research into whether money brings happiness. The researchers’ conclusion was that money helps, but happiness is contingent on what we spend it on. If we buy experiences rather than things, chances were we would be happier people. Turns out... Full Article Two Guys on Your Head audio money money and happiness podcast psychology The Brain
pi Honesty & Happiness By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:35:39 +0000 If you’ve caught yourself wanting to lie in a social situation, you’re not alone. Honesty is a huge part of trust in every relationship but can be difficult to maintain across all sorts of interactions. In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke talk about honesty and happiness. Full Article Two Guys on Your Head audio happiness honesty podcast psychology The Brain Trust
pi Joy vs. Happiness By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Fri, 17 May 2019 19:59:07 +0000 We might think the idea of happiness and joy are interchangeable, but as Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke discuss on this episode Two Guys on Your Head they are very different. Full Article Two Guys on Your Head audio happiness joy podcast podcasting psychology radio
pi Why Talk About Happiness? By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:56:38 +0000 Listen back to Two Guys on Your Head recorded live at The Cactus Cafe in Austin, Texas for a Views and Brews, as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks with Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke about the psychology of happiness. Many people chase after goals that seem to them important and promising—getting into the right... Full Article Two Guys on Your Head comedy happiness joy live event podcast psychology The Brain well-being
pi Audience Q&A: Money and Happiness By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:29:39 +0000 Listen back to Two Guys on Your Head recorded live at The Cactus Cafe in Austin, Texas for a Views and Brews, as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks with Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke about the psychology of happiness. In this episode, we answer an audience question about money and happiness. Full Article Two Guys on Your Head audio comedy happiness live events money podcast Views and Brews
pi The Psychology of Happiness By kutpodcasts.org Published On :: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:05:43 +0000 Many people chase after goals that seem to them important and promising—getting into the right college, getting the dream job, moving to a big house. But what do you really need to be happy? To have a sense of fulfillment and joy? And why is it important? Listen back to KUT’s Views and Brews recorded... Full Article Two Guys on Your Head Views and Brews audio Cactus Cafe happiness joy live event podcast psychology The Brain two guys on your head
pi Episode 0x00: Goodbye and Ahoy Hoy By faif.us Published On :: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:22:00 -0400 Bradley and Karen announced that the Software Freedom Law Show is over. Karen and Bradley announced a new show, called Free as in Freedom, that will not be affiliated with any specific organization (although Bradley and Karen keep all their various affiliations themselves. :). Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:28) Bradley mentioned OsamaK is not happy at Bradley and Karen for not having a new oggcast for a month. (00:45) Bradley no long works at the Software Freedom Law Center. He now works full time at the Software Freedom Conservancy. (02:00) Bradley thinks everything related to FLOSS should be called “Software Freedom”. (03:10) Karen and Bradley mention that many people in the software freedom world are involved in multiple organizations. (04:00) Karen is an officer and lawyer to Software Freedom Conservancy. (04:30) Conservancy provides non-profit infrastructure and services. (05:10) Conservancy helps software freedom projects focus on development, and aggregate projects into one place. (06:20) Conservancy will be expanding its service plan now that Bradley is full time. (06:46) Conservancy will try do copyright assignment in a community-focused way, only if the developers want it. Conservancy will also do more GPL enforcement than previously. (07:20) Bradley mentioned that Matthew Garrett has been doing some GPL enforcement, and Bradley thanked him for it publicly. (07:50) Karen thinks we'll see more enforcement over time, by more people. (08:14) Bradley wants to help Conservancy's member projects do more fundraising for initiatives to fund software development activity. (08:40) Bradley mentioned that Matt Mackall is doing Mercurial development funded through Conservancy. (09:20) As of earlier this year, Bradley is a volunteer director of the FSF, and now has additional volunteer work that he needs to do, while Conservancy (his former volunteer work) becomes his day job. (11:09) Bradley mentions that once you start doing something in the software freedom world, it's hard to stop once people start to rely on your work. (12:30) Conservancy handles a lot of “boring” but essential stuff for developers to continue in their project. (14:20) Bradley mentioned that his early volunteer work at FSF was also doing the boring stuff, and indeed a lot of his work has been willing to do the boring stuff (15:30) Karen mentions that no one fights over the work that just needs to get done. (16:30) Bradley discussed the fact that for-profit corporate control of projects is dangerous, and one of the things Conservancy and similar non-profits offers is an opportunity to have a non-profit with the public interest at heart in the center of their community. (17:39) Bradley mentioned the LibreOffice by the Document Foundation (18:03) Karen points out that for-profit and non-profit go hand-in-hand. But, Bradley argues that steward of a FLOSS project should always be an NGO. Karen agrees. (19:00-19:30) Bradley doesn't really believe that there are projects that would “never happen” without a for-profit company starting it. Karen disagrees. The Software Freedom Law Show is over This is the last episode of the Software Freedom Law Show. (21:10) Karen will make sure that the SFLC RSS feeds remain valid. Bradley points out that there are new RSS feeds for both the mp3 version and the ogg version of the new show, Free as in Freedom (21:33, 22:41) The new show is basically just the Karen and Bradley show, now named Free as in Freedom, hosted on faif.us. (23:43) Bradley mentioned that everywhere he's ever worked, he always had root on most of the boxes. He doesn't know what it's like to work somewhere and not have root. (27:50) Karen got in trouble at her first law firm job for installing software on computers. (28:21) Dan Scott sent a gift to Bradley and Karen Soap with 20-Ds in them. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x01: Free of Annoying Buzz By faif.us Published On :: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:03:00 -0400 Bradley and Karen discuss the new license of their show, multi-platform Free Software projects and conferences Bradley attended this month. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:32) All recordings for the first 0x01 attempt had an annoying audio buzz. (01:18) The Free as in Freedom oggcast is now licensed CC-By-SA 3.0 Unported (03:10) Karl Fogel is Executive Director of Question Copyright. (03:35) Karen mentioned the Free Culture definition. (08:22) Larry Lessig presented to an FSF Members Meeting using Mac. (09:22) Bradley and Karen argued about whether or not OpenOffice.org and/or Firefox run better on non-GNU/Linux systems than on GNU/Linux. (18:00) Bradley and Karen argued about whether or not otherwise proprietary company control of Free Software causes problems by default. (21:10) Segment 1 (27:00) Lara Moy got Ubuntu running on her Mac hardware. (27:30) Bradley attended the jQuery Conference Boston 2010 (28:30) Bradley was at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. (36:26) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x02: The Needs of the Few By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:17:00 -0500 Karen and Bradley discuss Stormy Peters' departure from the GNOME Foundation, an issue of deep confusion regarding copyright licensing, and references to Spock in a recent court decision. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley confirmed the entire show is licensed CC-By-SA 3.0. (02:30) Stormy Peters is leaving the position of GNOME Foundation's Executive Director. (04:10) The GNOME Advisory Board is a group of for-profit and non-profit organizations that meet regularly to give advice to GNOME Foundation. (04:34) Stormy is going to a job at the Mozilla Foundation. (09:10) You don't have to be a developer to become a member of the GNOME Foundation. (09:57) Bradley mentioned that he did an FSF booth at COMDEX Chicago in early 2001 (which Bradley incorrectly called CES Chicago in the recording). (12:20) Segment 1 (15:43) A LiveJournal post introduced an interesting issue of copyright confusion. (16:30) Karen mentioned there was discussion in other fora other than the original LiveJournal post, such as on the NY Frunch (Free Culture Lunch) mailing list and, since then, on NPR. (17:24) Bradley mentioned Fanzines, wondering if there are still fanzines. (18:57) Karen pointed out that both copyright infringement and plagiarism were at issue here. (20:25) Bradley is quite upset about the idea that people confuse public domain with FaiF licensing or any other actual license terms. (21:00) Karen notes that if you don't see a license, you have to assume it's all rights reserved. (23:10) Bradley described a Slashdot story that linked to a Techdirt article. (30:29) A footnote in the concurrence is what mentions Star Trek (33:03) . Bradley mentioned a mediocre novel he read in the 1990s called Brain Storm by Richard Dooling. (33:26) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x03: i Don't Store By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:50:00 -0500 Karen and Bradley discuss the debates regarding Apple's online store restrictions that make it impossible to distribute GPL'd software via Apple's store. Then, they discuss question the usefulness of the term “Open Core” Note: Bradley's audio was too low compared to Karen's on this episode. We're still sorting out our recording issues, and apologize for this. This is completely Bradley's fault: don't blame Producer Dan. :) Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Karen mentioned first Brett's statement on the VLC mailing list, although that is toward the end of the story that was covered last month. (05:30) Bradley mentioned that the story started with FSF's enforcement regarding Apple's distribution of GNU Go in Apple's application store. (05:54) Don't confused GNU Go (the game) with Google Go (the programming language). Bradley pointed out that Google did assign some of its copyright on the language Go, for the GCC frontend for the Go language. (06:51) Bradley mentioned that the game Go has been around thousands of years, although according the Go Wikipedia entry, it's been around for approximately 2,500 years. (08:21) Bradley pointed out that the primary goal of GPL enforcement is to get compliance, not to get companies to cease distribution, but sometimes the companies prefer to cease distribution rather than complying with the license. (09:57) There was disagreement in the VLC community about the enforcement action (11:50). There's an original thread on the VLC mailing list that discussed this (12:35), and then Brett's response on that list. (13:25) GPLv2 requires in § 6 that you cannot impose terms that restrict the downstream more than GPL otherwise does. (15:40) FSF made a statement that linked this issue to the DRM issue, which caused some confusion. It's our view that what Apple is doing against GPL software is part of their initiative to put DRM (both for software and more traditional content) onto devices. (17:20) Bradley mentioned that Apple lawyers have a pathological hatred of GPL, which he believes comes directly down from Steve Jobs, who began his dislike of GPL when he tried, while at NeXT, to distribute a proprietary front-end for GCC for Objective-C. (RMS discussed the story briefly in his essay Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism.) (23:45) Segment 1 (27:40) Bradley has decided that the term “Open Core” is so confusing that it's now useless. The Gnus IMAP backend is being rewritten, and Joel Adamson mentioned that he's using Emacs development mainline and the new IMAP implementation is working well. (29:58) Alexandre Oliva started a project called Linux Libre, to remove proprietary software from Linux. (31:31) There is a file called WHENCE in Linux that is a long list of proprietary software included inside Linux. Fontana linked the WHENCE file on identi.ca (31:02) Alexandre made an announcement calling Linux an “Open Core” project. (32:56) Bradley mentioned that Alexandre appears to have been convinced that Open Core is a problematic term in this context (during this identica conversation). Alexandre seems to be favoring the term “Free Bait” now. (35:16) Karen mentioned Nina Paley's intellectual pooperty cartoon. (38:39) Bradley mentioned the softer side of Sears marketing campaign, which was used as a cruel joke by Cordelia in the pilot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to make fun of Willow's clothes. Sears apparently dropped the campaign in 1999. (40:23) Join us on #faif on freenode and the !FaiFCast group on identi.ca (43:47) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x04: Conference Behavior and Novell Sale By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 11:30:00 -0500 In this episode of Free as in Freedom, Karen and Bradley discuss in the first segment recent press coverage of sexist attitudes at Free Software conferences, and in the second segment, discuss the public filings related to the Novell sale. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:40) Karen and Bradley discuss an article called The Dark Side of Open Source Conference, which was covered some in the tech press, in press outside of technology. Deb Nicholson wrote a blog post about it, as did Valerie (the original article's author. (01:06) Bradley mentioned his blog post where he discussed issues of gender equality across all Computer Science, not just the Free Software community. (05:29) Karen mentioned Kirrily “Skud” Robert. (10:27) Segment 1 (32:18) There was an announcement that Novell will be sold (32:15) Karen mentioned that Andy Updegrove blogged twice on the subject (32:30) Karen talked about the 8K filing that Novell made regarding the purchase. (34:30) Karen mentioned a post on groklaw. (42:43) Bradley mentioned that the OIN patent license is incredibly narrow and not particularly useful, because the definition of the “Linux system“ is so narrow, and because OIN is a pro-patent, for-profit company that doesn't have the interest of Free Software at its heart. (45:30) Karen disagrees with Bradley's comments on OIN and thinks his characterization of the patent pool is a serious exaggeration. (46:00) These show notes are Copyright © 2010, Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn of Free as in Freedom, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported). Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x05: Inducing Fryers By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:30:00 -0500 Bradley and Karen welcome special co-presenter and guest, Aaron Williamson, to discuss the OpenBSD email regarding purported FBI backdoors. In the main segment, they discuss the amicus brief filed by SFLC (where Aaron and Karen work) in the Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB USA Supreme Court case. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Aaron brought up a message forwarded to the OpenBSD developers list by Theo de Raadt. This story has been covered widely online. (02:50) Aaron mentioned that Glyn Moody wrote a blog post about what issues about “Open Source” security this raises. (04:06) Bradley mentioned the gnuftp/Savannah site crack that occurred in 2003 and its security implications. Those seeking more information on this can read the slashdot coverage, Savannah forum posts, the CERT advisory and even the missing files still on the GNU FTP site. (05:21) Bradley again mentioned Thompson's hack which he loves to mention when security issues come up (06:26). Karen mentioned SFLC's medical devices paper, Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices, which she loves to mention. (08:23) Bradley mentioned the Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL bug that occurred in mid-2008, which was widely discussed online. (10:18) Bradley mentioned a case in 2000 where the FBI was able to open a mobster's PGP mail merely by getting his passphrase. (12:49) Bradley offers an even-money bet that there are no FBI-inserted bugs in OpenBSD. (13:46) Segment 1 (14:18) The canonical page on Wikipedia for what Karen and Bradley are on FaiF says they are presenters, rather than hosts. (15:06) Aaron and Karen's organization, the Software Freedom Law Center, announced that they filed an amicus brief in the Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB case. (16:30) Despite the beliefs of a Jeopardy! contestant last month, “Maria” is Sonia Sotomayor's middle name. Antonin Scalia's middle name is “Gregory” (17:20) Bradley again reviewed the issues of classical vs. church pronunciations. (19:20) Bradley asked Aaron if what was being sold in this case was equivalent to the Cornballer as introduced on the television show, Arrested Development. (20:30) Bradley mentioned that on FaiF 0x02, they discussed the issue of how higher courts consider issues of law more than the detailed facts of the case. (23:30) RMS's speech, The Danger of Software Patents, is available as a transcript and audio (ogg) (35:22) Aaron mentioned Newegg's brief, which is a reseller. (40:50) Aaron mentioned the SCOTUS blog summary which included links to other amici briefs. (41:01) Bradley referenced Don's staff answer to their boss, Don, in the Kids in the Hall movie, Brain Candy. (45:57) Final (54:16) Aaron, Karen and Bradley are discussing the alternative lyrics to the Stars and Stripes Forever. (54:20) These show notes are Copyright © 2010, Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn of Free as in Freedom, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported). Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x06: GRUB, Zulu Foxtrot Sierra By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:30:00 -0500 Bradley and Karen discuss the inclusion of ZFS GPLv2-or-later code inclusion into GNU GRUB. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen discussed the inclusion of ZFS code now included in GRUB, as the GRUB Project announced and was covered at LWN by Jonathan Corbet. It's not mandatory that GNU projects have assignment to the FSF. The GNU Maintainer's guide discuss the requirements when items are assigned to FSF. (14:40) FSF requires that the entire codebase be assigned once GNU project maintainers choose to assign copyrights. Conservancy's policy on copyright assignment differs here; Conservancy will accept partial copyright assignment. (16:07) Bradley mentioned the COBOL front end to GCC that is not in the main GCC codebase because it is not copyright assigned to FSF. (17:40) Bradley and Karen discussed the Squeak relicensing last call. (25:49) Bradley posted a comment to Corbet's article. (32:30) Final (45:45) The calendar Bradley was thinking of was the International Fixed Calendar, which Wikipedia confirms, with a sourced link, was used by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1928 to 1989. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x07: Revoked? By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:30:00 -0500 Bradley and Karen discuss a few corrections from previous shows, and then discuss misunderstandings about the GPL regarding “revocation” of the GPL. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Bradley issued a correction regarding FaiF 0x06. Christopher Allan Webber mentioned that FSF sometimes accepts copyright assignments in cases where the entire code base is not assigned. (02:40) Karen issued a correction regarding FaiF 0x04 about women being hired to be at the party, but in fact that was not the case, despite being mentioned in this article. Karen's paper on Medical Devices was linked to from a ZD Net UK blog. (05:48) Bradley mentioned this Android bug regarding mis-sent SMS, which was widely covered in the press. Apparently the bug has been resolved upstream, somewhat disproving Bradley's point. (08:40) Segment 1 (12:19) Bradley is quoted in an article about revocation of the GPL (12:35). The story was originally covered on slashdot. (13:17) The WinMTR site now says: By popular request, WinMTR will be available under GPL v2. (19:50) Karen mentioned the FSF's GPL FAQ. (29:27) Bradley mentioned the four rationale documents. There's also one for AGPLv3 draft 2 and LGPLv3 draft 2. (30:13) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x08: Strictly Commercial By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:50:00 -0500 Bradley and Karen discuss non-commercial-only commons licenses, particularly the CC-By-NC license, and how they compare to Free Culture and Free Software licenses, and why some authors pick NC licenses instead of Free Culture/Software ones. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Listeners seeking a show on how to select a Free Software license, differences between copyleft and non-copyleft, and how they interact with copyright are encouraged to listen to episode 0x08 of the old Software Freedom Law Show which covered these topics. Please write in again if that show doesn't cover your questions on the issue. (02:10) Bradley reminisced about the crass “Brian and O'Brien” show on Baltimore's B-104 Gary Huddles who was notorious locally in Baltimore because he was implicated in Maryland's version of the 1980s Savings and Loan scandals. (03:30) Karen mentioned that freedomdefined.org is the source for the Free Culture definition that defines what licenses are Free Culture licenses. (12:54) Bradley suggested listening to some of the old versions of RMS' Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks. In fact, there is an audio recording of the one at MIT on 19 April 2001 that Bradley attended, and an audio recording of the one that Bradley heard at Cardozo Law School. There is audio of the Q&A session, wherein RMS engages in that discussion Bradley mentioned with Free Culture activists. (10:10, 14:04) Bradley mentioned that Linus Torvalds switched to GPL for Linux because he realized non-commercial restrictions weren't appropriate. (Search the string GPL on that link to find Linus' answer on that.) (19:00) Karen mentioned that Creative Commons did a study considering what people understand commercial vs. non-commercial to mean. (20:43) Karen and Bradley discussed the text of CC-By-NC. (23:00) Karen mentioned various CC-By-SA licensed derivatives that had been made from Sita Sings the Blues. (38:24) Bradley discussed the Harry Potter Lexicon case and Karen mentioned the so-called IP Colloquium discussion on it. (44:30) Bradley mentioned Memory Alpha, which is a CC-By-NC wiki regarding Star Trek, which is tolerated by Paramount. (45:20) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x09: Copyleft, -or-later, and Basics of Compatibility By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:30:00 -0500 Bradley and Karen discuss types of copyleft generally and introduce the basics of license compatibility and -or-later clauses. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) This show discusses copyleft and basic issues of license compatibility (04:09) Karen mentioned an episode of the old Software Freedom Law Show, Episode 0x08, where Bradley and Karen discussed selecting a FLOSS license and what the various options are. (04:45) license compatibility 06:28 Bradley incorrectly said that the original Emacs license didn't have the word General in it. However, the other explanations appear to be correct. There's a useful history page that someone wrote about the history of GPL. It appears the non-general GNU copylefts existed from 1984-1988. (06:57) Karen noted that the Library GPL was renamed to the Lesser GPL which happened in 1999. (09:30) Bradley mentioned that when he and RMS worked on the GNU Classpath Exception, Bradley suggested it be called the Least GPL. (10:38) GPL doesn't have a choice of law clause. If another copyleft does, it surely is incompatible with the GPL. (14:17) AGPLv3 § 13 and GPLv3 § 13 explicitly make themselves compatibility with each other, which Bradley calls compatibility by fiat. (15:40) Karen mentioned that the Mozilla Public License § 13 has a section about multiple licensed code (16:50). Bradley mentioned that Mozilla Firefox uses a combinatorial license: (GPL|LGPL|MPL), which is a disjunctive tri-license. (19:00). Bradley mentioned that the old Software Freedom Law Show Episode 0x17 discussed compatibility of permissively licensed software and copylefted software. (20:22) Apache Software License 2.0 was likely the first FLOSS license to have an explicit patent licensing provision (23:40) Bradley and Karen discussed the fact that -only vs. -or-later are options with the GPL, while they are not with other copylefts, such as CC-By-SA. (30:11) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode: 0x0A: Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7 Series Application Store By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:30:00 -0500 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. 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 used by Charles 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 called 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. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x0B: Free Software Project Non-Profit Existence By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:30:00 -0400 Bradley and Karen have an introductory discussion on how non-profit governance interacts with Free Software projects and what issues are important for developers who want their project to have a non-profit existence. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) Bradley and Karen began the discussion by commenting on this blog post by Andy Updegrove about non-profit governance. (01:50) Bradley and Karen tend to agree that non-profit settings are better places to foster and help Free Software development. (03:40) Bradley mentioned that Roland McGrath wrote GNU C Library (and other GNU programs) while working as an employee at the FSF, and many of those programs are now often maintained by Red Hat (or other company's) developers, under the auspices of the GNU project, as overseen by the FSF. (04:50) Corporate form and organization questions should be secondary to project leadership ones. (09:50) One of the most important things is to have an organization in a place where people are willing to do the work to keep the organization going. (20:10) Enthusiasm to keep the organization running is the most important resource for running the organization. (22:26) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x0C: Disturbing Debates By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:30:00 -0400 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. 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. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x0D: NDAs By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:30:00 -0400 This episode is a recording of Karen's talk, Sign on the Dotted Line: NDAs and Free and Open Source Software from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit. Show Notes: Segment 1 (01:33) You can download a copy of Karen's slides from the talk if you'd like to follow along. Here's a listener donated transcription of one of the questions: [23:14] [indistinct] Signed up [indistinct] At Google you can opt out. Some of the people are You cannot actually [indistinct] [29:53] On some NDAs you can have sections that say you are not allowed to use open source software and not allowed to write open source software, but the company is hiring you to do exactly this. [30:12] In NDAs. I'm a consultant, and so I get a lot of NDAs on my desk. I know at least 5 large semiconductor companies who have this paragraph inside that forbid you to look at open source software and its clear that open source software is a clause for the death penalty when they're hiring you as a consultant to write drivers in the Linux kernel. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x0E: Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:56:00 -0400 This episode is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Bradley is still recovering from a rhinovirus which he didn't take care of and also made him sicker, which explains the problems with his voice. In fact, the coughing in the background during Fontana's talk is all Bradley. He apologizes. (00:50) This show is Richard Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2011 talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement. (03:24) Segment 1 (03:48) Richard Fontana's slides for his talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement are available on his website. (04:29) Bradley was live-denting Fontana's LCS talk. (04:31) Richard Fontana is the purveyor of the disturbing group on identi.ca. (04:30) Fontana makes reference to a Bradley's blog post on switching back to Debian from Ubuntu. (05:55) Fontana pointed out that the GNU Manifesto deals a lot with how Free Software is completely compatible with many business models. (12:30) Fontana pointed out that many of the relationships between companies in Free software have great variability in level of transparency. (16:00) In the background, you hear Bradley saying something. He's giving Josh Berkus credit for the phrase throw code over the wall, a phrase which both Fontana and Bradley now use regularly. (32:28) Segment 2 (48:25) Fontana made an interesting analogy to commissioned art and its similarity to FLOSS. (50:33) Fontana noted later on identica that he does support non-profit as solution to entanglement problem. (54:48) Bradley mentioned the 60 Minutes story about Mortenson's Central Asia Institute (CAI). (55:30) Fontana now talking about GE/NBC relationship, but Bradley was surprised that Fontana didn't mention Ben Bagdikian's book, The Media Monopoly. (18:26, 56:30) Bradley was glad that Fontana called proprietary relicensing illegitimate. Bradley points out that sometimes community members, including himself, have too easily forgiven business models on the edges of software freedom. (25:13, 30:50 58:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x0F: Why Samba Switched to GPLv3 By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:15:00 -0400 This episode is a recording of Jeremy Allison's talk, Why Samba Switched to GPLv3 from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk. Show Notes: Ironically (or perhaps appropriately), Bradley was at Samba XP with Jeremy the day this show was released. So, there he wasn't able to get show notes together in detail for this show. However, Jeremy's slides from the talk are available (in PDF), and also ODP format. So, you can follow along with it in the talk. Also, you may be interested to read Bradley live-dent'd Jeremy's talk, so the discussion there might be useful to read as well. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x10: Linux License Violations By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:37:00 -0400 Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett's talk GPL Violations: What Are We Doing? (aka Linux License Violations) from the Linux Collaboration Summit 2011. If you want to listen to only the off-topic parts of this oggcast, please download the FaiF 0x10 Off-Topic Remix. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) FaiF Producer Dan Lynch is filling in for Karen as co-host this week. (00:43) Karen got married on the day Dan and Bradley recorded the oggcast. (01:03) Dan is also known as the co-host of Linux Outlaws, host of Rat Hole Radio, and occasional co-host of FLOSS Weekly. (02:05) Bradley mentioned Dick Van Dyke's admission (06:56) Segment 1 (08:05) This segment is Matthew Garrett's talk GPL Violations: What Are We Doing? (aka Linux License Violations) from the Linux Collaboration Summit 2011. Matthew Garrett released the slides from his talk which you can follow along with during the talk. Segment 2 (51:29) Bradley mentioned that Matthew is particularly interested in the GPL violations on Android/Linux devices that he's found. (52:57) Bradley mentioned Greg Kroah-Hartman's GPL enforcement against Microsoft, which Bradley also blogged about a few years ago. (55:51) Dan asked Bradley about DMCA usage in GPL enforcement. Bradley explained that there is a process called DMCA takedown that Matthew was discussing. (57:30) Dan and Bradley discussed the Linux Foundation Open Compliance Program. (1:05:05) Bradley mentions that he is completely opposed to criminal penalties for copyright infringement, and mentioned his ACTA commenting blog post. (1:12:13) Bradley and Dan discussed the Sony DVD rootkit. (1:15:17) Karen's wedding invitation got some press since it was a working record player. (1:16:58) Karen and Mike's wedding song is at the end of the oggcast, but you can also download the song from the wedding website. (1:21:08) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x11: Corporate Licensing Decisions That Impact the Project's Community By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:06:06 -0400 Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley discuss a few examples where licensing decisions by companies impacts the health of the software development community. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:36) Dan interviewed the CentOS developers on FLOSS Weekly. (00:05:52) Bradley has a blog post that describes RHEL licensing model. His previous blog post to that one, while mostly off-topic here, has a few points of interest. (00:10:36) Dan Lynch mentioned The Smoking Man from the The X Files television series. (00:17:22) Bradley mentioned that Lennart Poettering is a Red Hat employee working on systemd, which is now in Fedora, but not in RHEL yet (as far as we know). (00:18:53) Bradley suggested that developers starting projects read Karsten Wade's The Open Source Way, and Karl Fogel's Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, and Bradley's blog post about developing in public. (00:22:16) Dan and Bradley briefly discussed copyright abolition. Dan mentioned Stallman's writing on the Pirate Party's copyright positions. Segment 1 (00:32:30) Bradley briefly discussed the history of StarOffice, and the creation of OpenOffice.org. (00:33:40) Bradley explained issues related to the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice.org. (00:37:30) Bradley has talked about how proprietary relicensing is very dangerous (00:39:50) Fedora, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE all switched to LibreOffice as a default. Bradley didn't know at recording time that the OpenOffice package in wheezy is a transition package to switch to LibreOffice. (00:41:24) Bradley and Dan mentioned a blog post by IBM's Rob Weir that misquotes the FSF to support IBM's positions on the OO.o relicensing issue. (00:58:26) Bradley mentioned the idea that Apache-2.0 work can be relicensed under LGPLv3-or-later, as he discussed in his blog post about the OO.o relicensing (01:00:45) Dan mentioned Jeremy Allison's comment on the aforementioned post on Rob Weir's blog. (01:02:08) Segment 2 (01:16:09) Bradley thanked Dan, on behalf of Karen, for all his work to make Free as in Freedom possible. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x12: Karen's New Job; Supreme Court on Patents By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:26:00 -0400 Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents. Be sure to make sure you're subscribed to feeds available on faif.us if you haven't already! Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:37) If you have not moved your RSS feed already away from softwarefreedom.org, and to faif.us, you should do that now! Here's links to the ogg RSS feed and mp3 RSS feed. New FaiF shows won't appear on softwarefreedom.org. Karen is now the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. (04:30) Bradley served on the GNOME Foundation Executive Director Hiring Committee, but resigned when Karen became a serious candidate. (05:13) Karen will continue as General Counsel of Question Copyright, and pro-bono counsel to Software Freedom Conservancy, and will also continue pro bono on some matters for SFLC. (06:30) Bradley has been working on GNU Bash. (07:34) Berlin's Tegel airport is closing soon. (14:40) Bradley mentioned that he incorrectly said in 0x11 that Red Hat doesn't provide sources publicly for RHEL. The RHEL SRPMS are actually on Red Hat's FTP site. (18:20) There are various identica threads on the RHEL issue from 0x11.(18:47) Bradley has previously explained the history of the term “punditocracy” in episode 0x0A. (27:46) Segment 1 (28:58) Bradley and Karen discuss the USA Supreme Court decision in the Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S. A. case, on which SFLC submitted an amicus brief, which was previously discussed in FaiF Episode 0x05. (29:55) Bradley and Karen discuss the USA Supreme Court decision in the Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership case, on which the EFF submitted an amicus brief. (40:11) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x13: Torts and 1023s By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:06:06 -0400 Karen and Bradley discuss the USAmerican legal system in regard to torts, and the current delays from the USA IRS on 501(c)(3) non-profit applications (i.e., Form 1023s). Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:48) Billy Crook wrote in to make a good joke about 0x12 being the last episode available in other RSS feeds. (Don't forget the right RSS feed is at faif.us.) Karen calls tortes delicious pastries. Bradley saw a documentary called Hot Coffee, which discussed the idea of tort deform. (03:35, 05:45) Bradley mentioned that Karl Rove, George W. Bush's political operative, was involved in early tort “reform”. (06:54) Brendan Scott is a lawyer in Australia, who has published about GPL enforcement and writes a blog about legal issues related to Open Source and Free Software (11:58) Segment 1 (12:50) Bradley talked about 501(c)(3) status and Form 1023s in his interview on FLOSS weekly. (13:50) Around 2010, applications for Free Software non-profits' 501(c)(3) status started to be delayed, according to independent evidence that Karen and Bradley have collected from the IRS and the community of non-profits. (16:20) Form 1023s are the applications you file with the IRS (17:15) As far as we know, no applications have been refused yet for a Free Software non-profit, but there seem to be extremely long delays. (18:40) Bradley mentioned a blog post from the Executive Director of CASH Music, where he talked about their Form 1023 being delayed. (19:10) Karen has confirmed with IRS agents that this process of applications does not impact existing non-profits currently. (21:00) Bradley pointed out that COBOL jobs are still very prevalent. Bradley even found a website dedicated only to COBOL jobs. (36:18) After we recorded, Simon Phipps posted a blog post quoting Bradley about the issue. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x14: Free as in FOAM By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:15:00 -0400 Karen and Bradley briefly discuss and play Bradley's keynote at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Conference. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:38) Bradley spoke at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM workshop. (01:42) Segment 1 (03:20) Follow along with Bradley's slides from his talk at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Workshop (03:22) The sources for the slides is available. Segment 2 (53:12) Karen and Bradley discussed the talk. Bill Gates' arrest in New Mexico (Bradley incorrectly said Nevada) is discussed in Gates' Wikipedia entry. (55:20) Bradley mentioned the made-for-TV movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley. (56:26) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:06:06 -0400 Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45) Karen received one of the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Awards. (Video of the award ceremony is online.) (03:05) Karen now has a blog called GNOMG. (05:03) Karen's wrote a blog post about winning the 2011 Open Source Award. (03:47) Karen now has a redirector to her blog via gnomg.org. (05:42) Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house for part of the time of OSCON, and Bradley later shared a room with listener Richard Fontana. (06:40) Segment 1 (10:22) Karen keynoted at OSCON, entitled Software Freedom: From my Heart to the Desktop. (10:22) Bradley had a live-denting thread of Karen's keynote at OSCON 2011. Karen's 2011 OSCON keynote is available YouTube. You can also hear the audio on the show itself, but if you prefer video, use the preceding link. If you watch instead of listen, just skip the audio in the oggcast up to Segment 2 below: Segment 2 (24:49) Bradley mentioned conferences can be ephemeral on his blog about GUADEC 2010. (28:25) Bradley and Karen are about to go to the Desktop Summit. (29:15) Bradley, Michael Meeks and Mark Shuttleworth will be on a panel on copyright assignment moderated by Karen. (29:25) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x16: Legal Basics for Developers By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:25:00 -0400 Bradley and Karen play and comment on a talk recording of Aaron Williamson's and Karen's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Legal Basics for Developers. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) Bradley mentioned the birthday attack when explaining to Karen how likely it might be that the number of the show might match the number of the day. (01:38) This show is a recording of Aaron and Karen's OSCON 2011 talk, Legal Basics for Developers. (02:20) Segment 1 (05:53) The slides for the Legal Basics for Developers are available to follow along with the recording (05:53) Segment 2 (49:36) Richard Fontana gave at a talk at OSCON as well, which was recorded, and Karen and Bradley have asked for his permission to play it. (50:45) Bradley asked folks to ping Richard on identi.ca to ask him to allow us to use his audio on the oggcast. (51:05) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:47:00 -0400 Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed under CC-By-SA-3.0 USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future episodes. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13) Segment 1 (03:34) Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk available on his website. Bradley live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON. Richard Fontana references Michael Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment (29:55) Segment 2 (45:17) Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33) Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different debate. (58:30) Karen has done some pro bono work for PubPat, and also Question Copyright (01:01:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x18: 12 Years of Compliance: A Historical Perspective By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:58:00 -0400 Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled 12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A Historical Perspective. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley mentioned that time travel requires special verb tenses according to the Douglas Adams' book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (01:48) Bradley gave a keynote at Ohio Linux Fest 2011 (01:58) Segment 1 (05:02) This segment is a recording of Bradley's OSCON 2011 talk, entitled 12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A Historical Perspective. The slides are available on Bradley's website so you can follow along during the talk if you like. There is a live denting identi.ca thread from Bradley's talk. (03:50) Bradley wrote a blog post about a minor GPL violation in the Emacs codebase. It has since been fixed. RMS mentioned the NeXT/Objective C GPL violation in his essay, Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism. Segment 2 (52:35) Bradley will be speaking at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2011 and at LinuxCon Europe 2011. (55:05) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x19: GNOME 3.2 and Other Topics By faif.us Published On :: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:22:00 -0400 Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and they discuss together UEFI “secure” boot, and the PyPy Python 3 campaign. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:40) Bradley wrote a blog post about how GNOME 3 is not for him. Segment 1 (07:14) Karen interviewed Jos Poortvliet Segment 2 (21:04) Bradley mentioned Shaun McCance's post to desktop-devel about response bias, which he posted on user survey thread. (25:04) Karen mentioned that GNOME 3.2 has been released with new features, such as better window resizing. (28:57) Bradley pointed out that gnats was one of the earliest Free Software bug tracking systems. (30:37) Segment 3 (31:53) Bradley mentioned that he feels like the unfrozen caveman lawyer when trying to use identi.ca now. (32:54) Bradley mentioned Matthew Garrett's blog post about UEFI so-called “secure” booting. (37:36) PyPy is trying to raise funds to support Python 3 on PyPy. (41:20) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x1A: Comments on Jobs By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:18:00 -0400 Bradley and Karen discuss the various news and comments on Steve Jobs' death and his legacy, and their own thoughts on the issue. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Bradley still hasn't made the blog post he keeps saying he'll make about one year at Conservancy. (01:30 Bradley mentioned the character Cat from Red Dwarf's obsession with “shiny things” in the episode Waiting for God. (20:23) Segment 1 (21:12) Karen mentioned Paula Rooney's article Steve Jobs: an open source pioneer? You bet, which Bradley pointed out was a pure link-bait. (21:20) Bradley mention Andy Rooney has retired (32:10) Segment 1 (33:40) Bradley mentioned RMS' comments on Steve Jobs' death (34:09) Bradley mentioned the gawker article that was critical of Steve Jobs Bradley mentioned a comment that discussed how RMS' lack of tact can help software freedom. (40:43) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x1B: Two Executive Directors By faif.us Published On :: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:06:06 -0400 Bradley and Karen discuss their jobs, particularly fundraising, and plans for future shows. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) The Google Summer of Code Program is large philanthropic program by Google for students to write Free Software in the summer. Bradley gave a talk about non-profit organizations at the Google SoC Mentor Summit 2011 Karen mentioned the GNOME Women's Outreach Program, which coordinates with the SoC, and the Season of KDE. (09:36) Conservancy's Amarok, Mercurial and PyPy projects are all currently doing fundraising programs (14:38) Bradley will give two talks at LinuxCon Europe this week. (15:15) Karen will attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit. (20:20) Karen will speak in Latvia later this year. (24:20) Richard Fontana discussed RMS' quote about Jobs on identi.ca (26:27) Segment 1 (29:28) We'll try to record some talks/interviews at upcoming events. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology
pi Episode 0x1C: Adam Dingle of Yorba By faif.us Published On :: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:25:00 -0500 Karen interviews Adam Dingle of Yorba, and Bradley and Karen briefly discuss the interview. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) The interview is with Adam Dingle of Yorba. (02:30) Segment 1 (02:45) Yorba was founded in January 2009. (04:01) Yorba applied for 501(c)(3) status nearly two years ago and the application is still pending in the queue (the same delay queue we discussed in Episode 0x13. (28:30) Adam mentioned Yorba's donation page. (30:13) Segment 2 (41:08) Karen mentioned that Yorba's response to the IRS should be published soon. (41:35) Bradley mentioned Cat Allman's Fundraising 101 talk from OSCON. (43:30) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Full Article Technology