0x5A: Gamergate's Free Software Connection

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x5A_Gamergate.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_0x5A_Gamergate.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><strong>Note: Episode 0x5A was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order).</strong></p> <p>Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-called &ldquo;Gamergate&rdquo; controversy and how it relates to the Free Software community and a few obvious legal issues.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:37)</h4> <ul> <li> Karen asked if Bradley had heard of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy">Gamergate situation</a>. (01:30)</li> <li>Matthew Garrett wrote a blog post regarding this topic entitled <a href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32778.html"><cite>Actions have consequences (or: why I'm not fixing Intel's bugs any more)</cite></a> (10:23)</li> <li>Mathew was <a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/6/432">attacked on LKML about this blog post</a> (10:50)</li> <li><a href="https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7vd">Lennart Poettering also wrote an essay recently about aggression and attacking people in Free Software communities.</a> (12:12)</li> <li>Karen mentioned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra#Harassment">the harassment Kathy Sierra faced in the late 2000s</a>. (13:00)</li> <li>Bradley called out Linux Foundation to ask why they tacitly support the bad behavior by its employees and others in the Linux Project (14:35, 31:10)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://fi.linkedin.com/in/anttiaumo">Antti Aumo</a> in his <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/456793/">LinuxCon Europe 2011 keynote</a>, said that a great thing about the Internet of Things is that you can <q>put a lock on your fridge when the wife's on a diet</q>. (16:32)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="https://screen.yahoo.com/white-000000112.html">Eddie Murphy's <cite>Saturday Night Live</cite> skit, <cite>White Like Me</cite>, which <a href="http://snltranscripts.jt.org/84/84iwhitelikeeddie.phtml">according to the transcript, originally aired on 1984-12-15 on SNL</a>. (24:45)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2011/jul/05/0x13/">FaiF 0x13, which discussed torts and why they're important</a>. (29:50)</li> <li>Bradley wrote a blog post about <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/09/26/non-profit-status.html">Bradley mentioned his blog post about John Oliver's discussion of the Miss America Pageant</a> (43:30)</li> <li>Bradley suggested that Intel should have instead given the Gamasutra money to <a href="http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php/scholarships">Society of Women Engineers Scholarship fund</a>. (45:30)</li> <li>Karen mentioned the <a href="http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2014/10/03/chip-shot-intel-issues-statement-on-gamasutra-advertising">statement Intel published a statement regarding the situation</a>. (47:10)</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>