Episode 0x12: Karen's New Job; Supreme Court on Patents

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x12_Karen-Job-and-Supreme-Court.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x12_Karen-Job-and-Supreme-Court.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents.</p> <p>Be sure to make sure you're subscribed to <a href="http://faif.us/">feeds available on faif.us</a> if you haven't already!</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:37)</h4> <ul> <li>If you have not moved your RSS feed already away from softwarefreedom.org, and to <a href="http://faif.us">faif.us</a>, you should do that now! Here's links to the <a href="http://faif.us/feeds/cast-ogg/">ogg RSS feed</a> and <a href="http://faif.us/feeds/cast-mp3/">mp3 RSS feed</a>. New FaiF shows won't appear on softwarefreedom.org.</li> <li><a href="http://www.gnome.org/press/2011/06/karen-sandler-named-new-executive-director-of-the-gnome-foundation/">Karen is now the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation</a>. (04:30)</li> <li>Bradley served on the <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/gpoo/2010/12/27/executive-director-hiring-committee/">GNOME Foundation Executive Director Hiring Committee</a>, but <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/06/21/karen-gnome.html">resigned when Karen became a serious candidate</a>. (05:13)</li> <li>Karen will continue as <a href="http://questioncopyright.org/about">General Counsel of Question Copyright</a>, and pro-bono counsel to <a href="http://sfconservancy.org">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>, and will also continue pro bono on some matters for SFLC. (06:30)</li> <li>Bradley has been <a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-06/msg00045.html">working on</a> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/">GNU Bash</a>. (07:34)</li> <li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tegel_Airport">Berlin's Tegel airport</a> is closing soon. (14:40)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that he incorrectly said in 0x11 that Red Hat doesn't provide sources publicly for RHEL. The <a href="http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/">RHEL SRPMS are actually on Red Hat's FTP site</a>. (18:20)</li> <li>There are <a href="http://identi.ca/conversation/73255188">various</a> <a href="http://identi.ca/conversation/74195700#notice-76717065">identica</a> threads on the RHEL issue from 0x11.(18:47)</li> <li>Bradley has previously explained the <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2011/mar/01/0x0A/">history of the term &ldquo;punditocracy&rdquo; in episode 0x0A</a>. (27:46)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (28:58)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley and Karen discuss the <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/10-6.pdf">USA Supreme Court decision in the <cite>Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S. A.</cite> case</a>, on which <a href="http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2010/sflc-seb-amicus.pdf">SFLC submitted an amicus brief</a>, which was previously <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2010/dec/21/0x05/">discussed in FaiF Episode 0x05</a>. (29:55)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen discuss the <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/10-290.pdf">USA Supreme Court decision in the <cite>Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership</cite> case</a>, on which <a href="http://www.eff.org/cases/microsoft-v-i4i">the EFF submitted an amicus brief</a>. (40:11)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>