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Episode 0x0E: Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement

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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)

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