Episode 0x0E: Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x0E_Corp-Entanglement.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_0x0E_Corp-Entanglement.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>This episode is a recording of <a href="http://aleatoric.org">Richard Fontana</a>'s talk, <cite>Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement</cite> from the <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/legal">2011 Linux Collaboration Summit</a>, with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk.</p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:34)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley is still recovering from a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinovirus">rhinovirus</a> which he didn't take care of and also made him sicker, which explains the problems with his voice. In fact, the coughing in the background during Fontana's talk is all Bradley. He apologizes. (00:50)</li> <li>This show is <a href="http://aleatoric.org">Richard Fontana</a>'s <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/legal">Linux Collaboration Summit 2011 talk, <cite>Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement</cite></a>. (03:24)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (03:48)</h4> <ul> <li>Richard <a href="http://aleatoric.org/talks/lcs2011/">Fontana's slides for his talk, <cite>Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement</cite> are available on his website</a>. (04:29)</li> <li>Bradley was <a href="http://identi.ca/conversation/68336780">live-denting Fontana's LCS talk</a>. (04:31)</li> <li>Richard Fontana is the purveyor of the <a href="http://identi.ca/group/disturbing">disturbing group</a> on identi.ca. (04:30)</li> <li>Fontana makes reference to a <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/01/14/ubuntu-debian.html">Bradley's blog post on switching back to Debian from Ubuntu</a>. (05:55)</li> <li><a href="http://identi.ca/notice/70633348">Fontana pointed out that</a> the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html">GNU Manifesto</a> deals a lot with how Free Software is completely compatible with many business models. (12:30)</li> <li><a href="http://identi.ca/notice/70633542">Fontana pointed out that</a> many of the relationships between companies in Free software have great variability in level of transparency. (16:00)</li> <li>In the background, you hear Bradley saying something. He's giving Josh Berkus credit for the phrase <q>throw code over the wall</q>, a phrase which both Fontana and Bradley now use regularly. (32:28)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 2 (48:25)</h4> <ul> <li><a href="http://identi.ca/conversation/68336780#notice-70633678">Fontana made an interesting analogy to commissioned art</a> and its similarity to FLOSS. (50:33)</li> <li>Fontana <a href="http://identi.ca/notice/70758249">noted later on identica that he does support non-profit as solution to entanglement problem</a>. (54:48)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/15/60minutes/main20054397.shtml"><cite>60 Minutes</cite> story about Mortenson's Central Asia Institute (CAI)</a>. (55:30)</li> <li><a href="http://identi.ca/notice/70633737">Fontana now talking about GE/NBC relationship, but Bradley was surprised</a> that Fontana didn't mention <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bagdikian">Ben Bagdikian's</a> <a href="http://benbagdikian.net/Docs/excerpts.htm">book, <cite>The Media Monopoly</cite></a>. (18:26, 56:30)</a> <li><a href="http://identi.ca/notice/70634640">Bradley was glad that Fontana called proprietary relicensing illegitimate</a>. Bradley points out that sometimes community members, including himself, have too easily forgiven business models on the edges of software freedom. (25:13, 30:50 58:30)</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>. 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