0x60: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part I)

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x60_FOSDEM-2019-keynote-I.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_0x60_FOSDEM-2019-keynote-I.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>Bradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: <cite>Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software</cite>. This episode is the first of multiple episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote address.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4> Segment 0 (00:36)</h4> Bradley and Karen discuss the plan to do prep for their FOSDEM keynote &ldquo;on air&rdquo; as part of FaiF broadcasts. <h4> Segment 1 (07:13)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley read out the abstract from <a href="https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/full_software_freedom/">Bradley and Karen's keynote, <cite>Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software</cite></a> at FOSDEM 2019. (circa 10:00)</li> <li>This started for Bradley with the <a href="https://replicant.us/about.php">HTC Dream</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1h1s_ojpM">Karen's struggle started with her heart device</a> (10:42)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen discussed how they plan to organize their FOSDEM 2019 joint keynote.</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that if Karen and Bradley recorded an episode of the two of them reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum">Lorem Ipsum</a> that listeners would likely still listen. Karen disagreed. (33:05)</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>