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Bradley and Karen announced that the Software Freedom Law
Show is over. Karen and Bradley announced a new show,
called Free as in Freedom, that will not be affiliated
with any specific organization (although Bradley and Karen keep all their
various affiliations themselves. :).

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:28)

• Bradley mentioned OsamaK is not
  happy at Bradley and Karen for not having a new oggcast for a
  month. (00:45)
• Bradley no long works at the Software Freedom Law Center. He href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2010/oct/04/kuhn-executive-director/">now
  works full time at the Software
  Freedom Conservancy. (02:00)
• Bradley thinks everything related to FLOSS should be called
  “Software Freedom”. (03:10)
• Karen and Bradley mention that many people in the software freedom
  world are involved in multiple organizations. (04:00)
• Karen is an officer
  and lawyer to Software Freedom Conservancy. (04:30)
• Conservancy provides href="http://sfconservancy.org/members/services/">non-profit
  infrastructure and services. (05:10)
• Conservancy helps software freedom projects focus on development, and
  aggregate projects into one place. (06:20)
• Conservancy will be expanding its service plan now that Bradley is
  full time. (06:46)
• 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)
• Bradley mentioned that href="http://lwn.net/Articles/404450/">Matthew Garrett has been doing some
  GPL enforcement, and Bradley href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/09/11/two-thank-yous.html">thanked
  him for it publicly. (07:50)
• Karen thinks we'll see more enforcement over time, by more
  people. (08:14)
• Bradley wants to help Conservancy's href="http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects do
  more fundraising for initiatives to fund software development
  activity. (08:40)
• Bradley mentioned that href="http://ostatic.com/blog/interview-with-mercurials-matt-mackall">Matt
  Mackall is doing Mercurial development funded through
  Conservancy. (09:20)
• 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, and
  now has additional volunteer work that he needs to do, while Conservancy
  (his former volunteer work) becomes his day job. (11:09)
• 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)
• Conservancy handles a lot of “boring” but essential stuff
  for developers to continue in their project. (14:20)
• 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)
• Karen mentions that no one fights over the work that just needs to
  get done. (16:30)
• 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)
• Bradley mentioned the href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">LibreOffice by the Document
  Foundation (18:03)
• 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)
• Bradley doesn't really believe that there are projects that would
  “never happen” without a for-profit company starting it.
  Karen disagrees.
• The Software Freedom Law Show is over
  This is the last episode of the Software Freedom
  Law Show. (21:10)
• Karen will make sure that the SFLC RSS feeds remain valid. Bradley
  points out that there are new RSS feeds for both href="http://faif.us/feeds/cast-mp3/">the mp3 version and href="http://faif.us/feeds/cast-ogg/">the ogg version of the new show,
  Free as in Freedom (21:33,
  22:41)
• The new show is basically just the Karen and Bradley show, now named Free as in Freedom, hosted on faif.us. (23:43)
• 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)
• Karen got in trouble at her first law firm job for installing software
  on computers. (28:21)
• Dan Scott sent a gift to Bradley
  and Karen href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/d1d1/">Soap with 20-Ds
  in them.

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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch
of danlynch.org.
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music written and performed
by Mike Tarantino
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