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Episode 0x02: The Needs of the Few

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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)

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