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In this episode of Free as in Freedom,
Karen and Bradley discuss in the
first segment recent press coverage of sexist attitudes at Free
Software conferences, and in the second segment, discuss the public
filings related to the Novell sale.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:40)

• Karen and Bradley discuss an article called href="http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/417952/bf6a55b67170ff0e/">The
  Dark Side of Open Source Conference, which was href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/69383">covered some in
  the tech press, in href="http://jezebel.com/5705980/women-fed-up-with-open-source-community-creeps">press
  outside of technology. href="http://eximiousproductions.com/blog/2010/12/01/the-importance-of-allies">Deb
  Nicholson wrote a blog post about it, as href="http://valerieaurora.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/an-inside-look-at-being-a-women-in-open-source/">did
  Valerie (the original article's author. (01:06)
• Bradley mentioned href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/02/17/education-floss.html">his
  blog post where he discussed issues of gender equality across all
  Computer Science, not just the Free Software community. (05:29)
• Karen mentioned Kirrily
  “Skud” Robert. (10:27)

Segment 1 (32:18)

• There was an announcement that href="http://lwn.net/Articles/416567/">Novell will be sold (32:15)
• Karen mentioned that href="http://66.223.107.171/attorneys/updegrove.php">Andy Updegrove href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20101124103213556">blogged
  href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20101129070702542">twice
  on the subject (32:30)
• Karen talked about the href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/758004/000119312510265964/d8k.htm">8K
  filing that Novell made regarding the purchase. (34:30)
• Karen mentioned a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20101122130625952">post
  on groklaw. (42:43)
• Bradley mentioned that the href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pat_license_agreement.php">OIN
  patent license is incredibly narrow and not particularly useful,
  because the href="http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pat_linuxdef.php">definition
  of the “Linux system“ is so narrow, and because OIN is
  a pro-patent, for-profit company that doesn't have the interest of Free
  Software at its heart. (45:30)
• Karen disagrees with Bradley's comments on OIN and thinks his
  characterization of the patent pool is a serious
  exaggeration. (46:00)

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