Free as in Freedom

Episode 0x00: Goodbye and Ahoy Hoy

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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.

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