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0x5A: Gamergate's Free Software Connection

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Note: Episode 0x5A was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order).

Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-called

“Gamergate” controversy and how it relates to the Free
Software community and a few obvious legal issues.

Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
  • Karen asked if Bradley had heard of the Gamergate
    • situation. (01:30)
  • Matthew Garrett wrote a blog post regarding this topic entitled Actions have
    • consequences (or: why I'm not fixing Intel's bugs any more)
    (10:23)
  • Mathew was attacked on
    • LKML about this blog post (10:50)
  • Lennart
    • Poettering also wrote an essay recently about aggression and attacking
    people in Free Software communities. (12:12)
  • Karen mentioned the harassment
    • Kathy Sierra faced in the late 2000s. (13:00)
  • Bradley called out Linux Foundation to ask why they tacitly support
    • the bad behavior by its employees and others in the Linux Project (14:35,
    31:10)
  • Bradley mentioned that Antti Aumo in his LinuxCon Europe 2011 keynote,
    • said that a great thing about the Internet of Things is that you can
    put a lock on your fridge when the wife's on a diet. (16:32)
  • Bradley mentioned the Eddie Murphy's
    • Saturday Night Live skit, White Like Me, which
    according
    to the transcript, originally aired on 1984-12-15 on
    SNL. (24:45)
  • Bradley mentioned FaiF 0x13, which discussed
    • torts and why they're important. (29:50)
  • Bradley wrote a blog post about Bradley
    • mentioned his blog post about John Oliver's discussion of the Miss
    America Pageant (43:30)
  • Bradley suggested that Intel should have instead given the Gamasutra
    • money to Society
    of Women Engineers Scholarship fund. (45:30)
  • Karen mentioned the statement
    • Intel published a statement regarding the situation. (47:10)

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