Episode 0x00: Goodbye and Ahoy Hoy

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x00_Ahoy-Hoy.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_0x00_Ahoy-Hoy.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 announced that the <strong><cite>Software Freedom Law Show</cite> is over</strong>. Karen and Bradley announced a new show, called <strong>Free as in Freedom</strong>, that will not be affiliated with any specific organization (although Bradley and Karen keep all their various affiliations themselves. :).</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:28)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://identi.ca/osamak/">OsamaK</a> is not happy at Bradley and Karen for not having a new oggcast for a month. (00:45)</li> <li>Bradley no long works at the Software Freedom Law Center. He <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2010/oct/04/kuhn-executive-director/">now works full time</a> at the <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>. (02:00)</li> <li>Bradley thinks everything related to FLOSS should be called &ldquo;Software Freedom&rdquo;. (03:10)</li> <li>Karen and Bradley mention that many people in the software freedom world are involved in multiple organizations. (04:00)</li> <li>Karen is an <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/about/officers/">officer and lawyer to Software Freedom Conservancy</a>. (04:30)</li> <li>Conservancy provides <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/members/services/">non-profit infrastructure and services</a>. (05:10)</li> <li>Conservancy helps software freedom projects focus on development, and aggregate projects into one place. (06:20)</li> <li>Conservancy will be expanding its service plan now that Bradley is full time. (06:46)</li> <li>Conservancy will try do copyright assignment in a community-focused way, only if the developers want it. Conservancy will also do more GPL enforcement than previously. (07:20)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/404450/">Matthew Garrett has been doing some GPL enforcement</a>, and Bradley <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/09/11/two-thank-yous.html">thanked him for it publicly</a>. (07:50)</li> <li>Karen thinks we'll see more enforcement over time, by more people. (08:14)</li> <li>Bradley wants to help Conservancy's <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a> do more fundraising for initiatives to fund software development activity. (08:40)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that <a href="http://ostatic.com/blog/interview-with-mercurials-matt-mackall">Matt Mackall is doing Mercurial development funded through Conservancy</a>. (09:20)</li> <li><a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/bradley-kuhn-joins-the-fsf-board">As of earlier this year, Bradley is a volunteer director of the FSF</a>, and now has additional volunteer work that he needs to do, while Conservancy (his former volunteer work) becomes his day job. (11:09)</li> <li>Bradley mentions that once you start doing something in the software freedom world, it's hard to stop once people start to rely on your work. (12:30)</li> <li>Conservancy handles a lot of &ldquo;boring&rdquo; but essential stuff for developers to continue in their project. (14:20)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that his early volunteer work at FSF was also doing the boring stuff, and indeed a lot of his work has been willing to do the boring stuff (15:30)</li> <li>Karen mentions that no one fights over the work that <q>just needs to get done</q>. (16:30)</li> <li>Bradley discussed the fact that for-profit corporate control of projects is dangerous, and one of the things Conservancy and similar non-profits offers is an opportunity to have a non-profit with the public interest at heart in the center of their community. (17:39)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">LibreOffice by the Document Foundation</a> (18:03)</li> <li>Karen points out that for-profit and non-profit go hand-in-hand. But, Bradley argues that steward of a FLOSS project should always be an NGO. Karen agrees. (19:00-19:30)</li> <li>Bradley doesn't really believe that there are projects that would &ldquo;never happen&rdquo; without a for-profit company starting it. Karen disagrees.</li> <li>The <cite>Software Freedom Law Show</cite> is <strong>over</strong> This is the <strong>last episode</strong> of the <cite>Software Freedom Law Show</cite>. (21:10)</li> <li>Karen will make sure that the SFLC RSS feeds remain valid. Bradley points out that there are new RSS feeds for both <a href="http://faif.us/feeds/cast-mp3/">the mp3 version</a> and <a href="http://faif.us/feeds/cast-ogg/">the ogg version</a> of the new show, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in Freedom</cite></a> (21:33, 22:41)</li> <li>The new show is basically just the Karen and Bradley show, now named <cite>Free as in Freedom</cite>, hosted on <a href="http://faif.us/"><code>faif.us</code></a>. (23:43)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that everywhere he's ever worked, he always had root on most of the boxes. He doesn't know what it's like to work somewhere and not have root. (27:50)</li> <li>Karen got in trouble at her first law firm job for installing software on computers. (28:21)</li> <li><a href="http://coffeecode.net/">Dan Scott</a> sent a gift to Bradley and Karen <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/d1d1/">Soap with 20-Ds in them</a>.</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>