Episode: 0x0A: Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7 Series Application Store

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x0A_Windows-Mobile.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_0x0A_Windows-Mobile.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><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley</a> and <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#karen">Karen</a> discussed the Windows Phone 7 Application Store terms and conditions which prohibit GPL'd and other copylefted software in the application store.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:35)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen and Bradley discussed the Microsoft Phone Marketplace agreement, which was <a href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/02/windows-phone-marketplace-bans-the-gpl-and-the-app-store-should-too.ars">heavily</a> <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-mulls-changing-windows-phone-marketplace-terms-to-add-more-open-source-licenses/8743">covered</a> <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/microsoft-bans-gplv3-open-source-software-from-windows-phone-and-xbox-apps/11462">in</a> <a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/02/microsoft-bans-its-own-licenses/index.htm">news</a> <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story/24433/GPL-like_Licenses_Explicitly_Banned_from_WP7_Marketplace">and</a> <a href="http://identi.ca/conversation/63997990#notice-64748800">blogs</a>. (02:50)</li> <li>Karen quoted directly from the &sect; 1(l) from the <a href="http://create.msdn.com/downloads/?id=638">Windows Phone Marketplace Application Provider Agreement</a> (03:20)</li> <li>Bradley credited Jello Biafra with coining the term &ldquo;punditocracy&rdquo;, but it seems to have <a href="http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=punditocracy&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3">been first used</a> by <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=y7xIAAAAYAAJ&q=%22punditocracy%22&dq=%22punditocracy%22&hl=en&ei=KNlrTaPmNIW4tgelr6zmAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg">Charles Reynell in <cite>The Economist</cite> in 1989</a> and popularized by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Alterman">Eric Alterman</a> in his <a href="http://www.ericalterman.com/_i__b_sound_and_fury__the_making_of_the_punditocracy__i___b___1993__2nd_edition__36624.htm">1992 book, <cite>Sound &amp; Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy</cite></a>.</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the brouhaha <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_assassination_attempt#Alexander_Haig_.22in_control_here.22">about the order of succession</a> after Regan was shot in 1981. (Bradley incorrectly said 1980 on the show.) (09:47)</li> <li>Karen and Bradley previously discussed the Apple Online Store agreement on <a href="http://faif.us/cast/2010/nov/23/0x03/">FaiF Episode 0x03</a>.</li> <li>Bradley mentioned that the <a href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/whats-the-point-of-a-windows-7-arm-port.ars">arm port of Windows 7</a> isn't even done (21:30)</li> <li>According to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalys">Canalys</a> study quoted on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone">Wikipedia's Smartphone entry</a>, RIM is only 14% of the market now, when it was previously much larger. Symbian is still the largest, surprisingly. (25:21)</li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/">K-9 Mail</a> is a fork of the last Free Software version of Google's Android Mail application. (30:21)</li> <li>Bradley compared what's happening with Android to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#History">history of X Windows</a> (31:40)</li> <li>Bradley joked about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7#Naming">naming length controversy for the Windows Phone 7</a>. (33:00)</li> <li><a href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/07/ballmer-and-microsoft-still-doesnt-get-the-ipad.ars">Steve Ballmer strangely kept saying: <q>The operating system is called Windows</q> while talking to market analysis</a> back in July 2010. (36:04) </li> </ul> <p>After the show was recorded, there was an <a href="http://slashdot.org/story/11/02/27/133228/Microsoft-Rewarding-Employees-Who-Phone-It-In">announcement that Microsoft would allow employees to build their own companies writing Windows 7 Series Windows Mobile applications</a>.</p> <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>. 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