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Episode 0x0C: Disturbing Debates


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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.

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