0x5E: Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative

Description

Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative that
will help Free Software developers negotiate their agreements with employers.

Software Freedom Conservancy has two href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/aug/04/everything-is-negotiable/">blog
href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/sep/26/contractpatch-step2/">posts
and a href="http://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/contractpatch">mailing
list to discuss the Contract Patch initiative (02:40).
Bradley searched for the NPR story he mentioned but just couldn't find it,
but he did fine href="http://www.npr.org/2014/09/01/345044359/why-do-we-blindly-sign-terms-of-service-agreements">a
similar one covering terms of service agreements (08:30)

The href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/oct/27/google-maps-api-charging">Google
Map API ToS states that you have to pay for it after a certain amount of
usage (17:30)

Bradley mentioned the book, href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Color_is_Your_Parachute%3F">What
Color Is Your Parachute? (24:30)

The “put it in writing” commercials from href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt3uAJodTjo">AT&T and href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3vgb37N3LA">MCI. (46:44)

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