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March 20, 20190x63: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part IV)
In their final installment regarding their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can
Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of
Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software,
you listeners can hear the final product — a recording of the
actual FOSDEM keynote. Afterwards, Karen and Bradley compare notes on
what went wrong and what went right (but mostly what went wrong) during
the talk.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:35)

Bradley and Karen talk logistics of how the talk is embedded in the audio.
Segment 1 (00:04:14)

The audio in this segment taken directly from the video of Karen and
Bradley's FOSDEM
2019 opening keynote, entitled Can Anyone Live in Full Software
Freedom Today? Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid
Proprietary Software, which was given . If you'd rather watch the video, you
can do so via FSODEM's video site in either webm
format or in mp4
format.
Segment 2 (00:46:01)
Karen mentioned “time
shifting”, which was permitted for the public, despite
accusations of copyright infringement, in the Betamax
case. (55:10)

Segment 3 (01:05:31)

Karen and Bradley mention that the next episode will be an interview
with Dan Lynch recorded at CopyleftConf 2019.
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1 hr 11 min
March 12, 20190x62: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part III)
Bradley and Karen have the last pre-talk installment of discussing the
preparation for their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can
Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of
Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This
episode is the third of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record
their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this
particular episode, they discuss the issue of letting others use
proprietary software on your behalf, the problem of relying too much on
that, and then finish up discussing with how they'll include this
material into the final talk.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
Karen discussed the idea of a shabbos goy, and the
analogy between that and allowing other people use proprietary on your
behalf. (02:58)

Bradley and Karen discussed that it is equally abhorrent to ask
someone else to use proprietary software for you as it is to use
yourself, since someone's software freedom is compromised in any event
(06:58)

Bradley mentioned that he had previously applied to serve on the
USA's Internal Revenue Service (IRS)'s Electronic
Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). Bradley mentioned how
sadly the IRS typically accepts
people from proprietary software companies like Intuit but has to his
knowledge never accepted anyone involved in FOSS software for IRS form
preparation (10:02)

Bradley mentioned the Free Software PDF fill-in tools evince and flpsed (12:24)

Karen stated that Conservancy's policy is that: We care so much
about software freedom that we would rather use proprietary software than
have someone else lose their software freedom. (15:20)

Karen mentioned that her Linux Conf
Australia 2019, Right to Not
Broadcast, which you can view online. (22:18)

Segment 1 (23:15)
Bradley mentioned the A-Team line, “I love it when
a plan comes together”. (23:23)

Bradley and Karen generally discuss the final plans for incorporating
this material into the keynote
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music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
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28 min
February 19, 20190x61: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part II)
Bradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote
at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom
Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary
Software. This episode is the second of three episodes where
Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote
address. In this particular episode, they discuss the golden age in
history when they used very little proprietary software, and then discuss
the beginning of their personal Dark Ages of using some proprietary
software.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley mentioned The Who's destruction
of their instruments and his discomfort with it in relation to
computers. (06:10)

Bradley and Karen mentioned their long-time use of the HTC Dream (07:30)

Bradley mentioned that he helped start the Replicant project, but his
primary contribution was its name. (08:24)

Segment 1 (12:34)
Karen mentioned the pinball
machine that she owns. (12:50)

Bradley mentioned the Dead Kennedys album,
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death. (25:10)

Karen and Bradley discuss proprietary Javascript. (28:20)

This is the screen you
get if you attempt to use Google maps without Javascript. (28:45)
Karen was wrong about this image no longer appearing. The image linked
to here is from the day before our FOSDEM keynote was delivered. (29:55)

Bradley and Karen recorded this episode while on site at LinuxConf
Australia 2019. They had dinner the night this was recorded at a
restaurant called, Dux Dine in
Christchurch, NZ. There were, in fact,
ducks dining at Dux Dine. (35:07)

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Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
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of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
36 min
January 13, 20190x60: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part I)
Bradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of
preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone
Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But
Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the first of
multiple episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation
conversations for this keynote address.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan to do prep for their FOSDEM keynote
“on air” as part of FaiF broadcasts.
Segment 1 (07:13)
Bradley read out the abstract from Bradley
and Karen's keynote, Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?
Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary
Software at FOSDEM 2019. (circa 10:00)

This started for Bradley with the HTC Dream, and Karen's struggle
started with her heart device (10:42)

Bradley and Karen discussed how they plan to organize their FOSDEM
2019 joint keynote.

Bradley mentioned that if Karen and Bradley recorded an episode of the
two of them reading Lorem Ipsum that
listeners would likely still listen. Karen disagreed. (33:05)
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by following Conservancy on
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
37 min
December 31, 20180x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing?
Bradley and Karen return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They
discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly
licenses that have been promulgated in 2018.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)

Bradley and Karen discuss ideas for what to do with the oggcast going
forward.
Segment 2 (07:49)
Bradley mentioned the field of endeavor restriction in Open Source Defintion. (09:20)

Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes,
which was widely
reported this month (10:22).

Bradley referenced that someone changed attempted to change a license
on a project to prohibit use by USA border protection agents. This was
the Lerna project, and Bradley wrote
a blog post about it earlier this year. (12:14)

Bradley mentioned the controversy about the new MongoDB license, the
SS Public License, which Bradley
also wrote a blog post about earlier this year (14:09)

karen reports that many people at the Sustain OSS Conference were surprised
that sustaining the idelogy of software freedom was something that people
value. (27:10)
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
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of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
37 min
November 01, 20160x5E: Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative that
will help Free Software developers negotiate their agreements with employers.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Software Freedom Conservancy has two blog
posts
and a mailing
list to discuss the Contract Patch initiative (02:40).

Bradley searched for the NPR story he mentioned but just couldn't find it,
but he did fine a
similar one covering terms of service agreements (08:30)

Karen mentioned the the Outreachy
Project of Conservancy. (09:30)

The Google
Map API ToS states that you have to pay for it after a certain amount of
usage (17:30)

Bradley mentioned the book, What
Color Is Your Parachute? (24:30)

The “put it in writing” commercials from AT&T and MCI. (46:44)
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
51 min
September 21, 20160x5D: Conference Report, 1st Half of 2016
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's conference trips and
presentations during the first half of 2016.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley attended and spoke at FOSDEM 2016 and LinuxConf Australia 2016
(03:10)

Bradley and Karen co-coordinated the FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy
Issues DevRoom (04:43)

Tom Marble did an interview-format
discussion with Richard M. Stallman at FOSDEM 2016 (04:55)

Bradley gave two talks at FOSDEM 2016,
Copyleft For the Next Decade: A Comprehensive Plan for the GPL
and A
Beautiful Build: Releasing Linux Source Correctly (06:40)

Richard
Fontana gave a talk at FOSDEM 2016 entitled Open source
foundations: threat or menace? (08:15)

The Doge
take on FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom was Much
politics. Many peoples. (11:00)

There was a Conservancy Supporter event at the Novotel
Grand Place in Brussels at FOSDEM 2016. (14:00)

Bradley gave a talk at
LCA 2016. (15:20)

Karen gave
the closing keynote at LibrePlanet 2016, entitled
Companies, free software, and you . (16:54)

Karen Sandler gave a talk
at the Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux Conference 2016 entitled
Tales of Enforcement (27:00)

Karen gave a talk at
at
the Postgres Conference in New York. (34:26)

Bradley and Karen were both on a panels at OSCON. (35:00)

Bradley and Karen flipped burgers (vegan ones and otherwise) at the OSCON 2016 party. (39:30)

Bradley gave a keynote at OSS
2016. (45:05)

Bradley spoke at two user groups in Norway as well. He hasn't made
the blog post he mentioned yet, but plans to. (45:50)

Karen mentioned Episode 0x4A which
discussed the OpenStack CLA debate. (50:50)

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by following Conservancy on
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
54 min
September 02, 20160x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101
Bradley and Karen give a basic introduction of copyright licensing of
Open Source and Free Software.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley mentioned the phrase “fixed
in a tangible medium” which appears in the USA copyright law. (03:10)
Bradley mentioned the Sherman Antitrust
act. (04:05)
Bradley mentioned the card game Pit (04:15)
Bradley
jokingly quoted Mit
Romney's famous gaffe, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
(04:44)
Bradley read Title 17, the USA
Copyright act many times. (06:50)
Bradley mentioned the court case, UNIX
System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc., which
resulted in releasing the parts of BSD that could be Free Software. (12:27)
Bradley mentioned the FSF's Free Software Definition
(13:11)
Bradley mentioned OSI's
Open Source Definition (13:16)
Apparently, the problem of categorization is called Categorization in
Philosophy. (14:30)
The issue of Open Source not being trademarked is discussed in this
essay by Richard Stallman. (15:44)
The basic categorizations of types of FLOSS licenses are copyleft and non-copyleft.
Karen suggests reading GPLv2 and GPLv3. (39:31)
Bradley made a crude
drawing of the spectrum of licenses. (40:20)
Bradley mentioned the The
Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement (55:40)
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by following Conservancy on
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
1 hr 3 min
August 18, 20160x59: Audio Killed the Video Star
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan for restarting Free as in
Freedom and plans for episodes to come.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley said in the before time — in the long long ago,
which is a reference to the South Park
parody of the ST:TOS episode, Miri (01:30)
Bradley mentioned when Karen
Sandler left the GNOME Foundation and took over
Bradley's old job as Executive Director of Conservancy. (02:20)
Karen mentioned that Bradley used to
be Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, a position now held
by John Sullivan. (03:25)
Dan blogged
about his illness, details of scheduling surgery, which he occurred
successfully. (10:28)
Karen mentioned the Conservancy Supporter program
discussed in detail on Episode 0x57. (12:40)
Bradley mentioned the short
lived Jon Masters Linux Kernel Mailing List Summary
Podcast. (14:45)
Karen and Bradley discussed Video Killed the
Radio Star by the Buggles, and Bradley attempted to mention this version which he
likes better. (17:36)
Bradley mentioned
Kantian Ethics (20:05)
Bradley mentioned the Portlanda skit, Rent it Out from
S04E02 (20:24)
Karen mentioned WellDeserved: A
Marketplace for Privilege (20:38)
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You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
by following Conservancy on
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
27 min
July 14, 20160x58: Debian Copyright Aggregation
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's Debian Copyright
Aggregation project. (Note: While it was released
just after DebConf16, this episode was
recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf refer to
DebConf15.)
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)

Note: While it was released just after DebConf16, this
episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf
refer to DebConf15.
Bradley mentioned his talk at DebConf. This was recorded before
DebConf 16, so Bradley is talking about DebConf 15, which was summarized
in this blog post and his keynote
from DebConf15. A video of that talk is available. (02:00)
Bradley mentioned this bug
about the copyright notice on the Debian website (07:47)
Ian
Jackson asked about bequeathing copyright at Bradley's talk. (15:45)
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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
Theme
music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
with Charlie Paxson on drums.
The content
of this
audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed
under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
40 min

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