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Note: Episode 0x5A was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order).

Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-called
“Gamergate” controversy and how it relates to the Free
Software community and a few obvious legal issues.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:37)

• Karen asked if Bradley had heard of the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy">Gamergate
  situation. (01:30)
• Matthew Garrett wrote a blog post regarding this topic entitled href="http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32778.html">Actions have
  consequences (or: why I'm not fixing Intel's bugs any more)
  (10:23)
• Mathew was attacked on
  LKML about this blog post (10:50)
• href="https://plus.google.com/+LennartPoetteringTheOneAndOnly/posts/J2TZrTvu7vd">Lennart
  Poettering also wrote an essay recently about aggression and attacking
  people in Free Software communities. (12:12)
• Karen mentioned href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra#Harassment">the harassment
  Kathy Sierra faced in the late 2000s. (13:00)
• 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)
• Bradley mentioned that href="http://fi.linkedin.com/in/anttiaumo">Antti Aumo in his href="http://lwn.net/Articles/456793/">LinuxCon Europe 2011 keynote,
  said that a great thing about the Internet of Things is that you can
  put a lock on your fridge when the wife's on a diet. (16:32)
• Bradley mentioned the href="https://screen.yahoo.com/white-000000112.html">Eddie Murphy's
  Saturday Night Live skit, White Like Me, which
  href="http://snltranscripts.jt.org/84/84iwhitelikeeddie.phtml">according
  to the transcript, originally aired on 1984-12-15 on
  SNL. (24:45)
• Bradley mentioned href="http://faif.us/cast/2011/jul/05/0x13/">FaiF 0x13, which discussed
  torts and why they're important. (29:50)
• Bradley wrote a blog post about 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 (43:30)
• Bradley suggested that Intel should have instead given the Gamasutra
  money to href="http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php/scholarships">Society
  of Women Engineers Scholarship fund. (45:30)
• Karen mentioned the 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. (47:10)

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