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Bradley and href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#karen">Karen
discussed the Windows Phone 7 Application Store terms and conditions
which prohibit GPL'd and other copylefted software in the application store.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)

• Karen and Bradley discussed the Microsoft Phone Marketplace
  agreement, which was href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/02/windows-phone-marketplace-bans-the-gpl-and-the-app-store-should-too.ars">heavily
  href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-mulls-changing-windows-phone-marketplace-terms-to-add-more-open-source-licenses/8743">covered
  href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/microsoft-bans-gplv3-open-source-software-from-windows-phone-and-xbox-apps/11462">in
  href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/02/microsoft-bans-its-own-licenses/index.htm">news
  href="http://www.osnews.com/story/24433/GPL-like_Licenses_Explicitly_Banned_from_WP7_Marketplace">and
  href="http://identi.ca/conversation/63997990#notice-64748800">blogs. (02:50)
• Karen quoted directly from the § 1(l) from the href="http://create.msdn.com/downloads/?id=638">Windows Phone
  Marketplace Application Provider Agreement (03:20)
• Bradley credited Jello Biafra with coining the term
  “punditocracy”, but it seems to have href="http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=punditocracy&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3">been
  first used by href="http://books.google.com/books?id=y7xIAAAAYAAJ&q=%22punditocracy%22&dq=%22punditocracy%22&hl=en&ei=KNlrTaPmNIW4tgelr6zmAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg">Charles
  Reynell in The Economist in 1989 and popularized by
  Eric Alterman
  in his 1992 book, Sound & Fury: The Making of
  the Punditocracy.
• Bradley mentioned the brouhaha href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_assassination_attempt#Alexander_Haig_.22in_control_here.22">about
  the order of succession after Regan was shot in 1981. (Bradley
  incorrectly said 1980 on the show.) (09:47)
• Karen and Bradley previously discussed the Apple Online Store
  agreement on FaiF
  Episode 0x03.
• Bradley mentioned that the href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/whats-the-point-of-a-windows-7-arm-port.ars">arm
  port of Windows 7 isn't even done (21:30)
• According to a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canalys">Canalys study quoted on
  Wikipedia's
  Smartphone entry, RIM is only 14% of the market now, when it was
  previously much larger. Symbian is still the largest,
  surprisingly. (25:21)
• K-9 Mail is a fork
  of the last Free Software version of Google's Android Mail
  application. (30:21)
• Bradley compared what's happening with Android to the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#History">history of
  X Windows (31:40)
• Bradley joked about the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone_7#Naming">naming
  length controversy for the Windows Phone 7. (33:00)
• href="http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/07/ballmer-and-microsoft-still-doesnt-get-the-ipad.ars">Steve
  Ballmer strangely kept saying: The operating system is called
  Windows while talking to market analysis back in
  July 2010. (36:04)

After the show was recorded, there was an href="http://slashdot.org/story/11/02/27/133228/Microsoft-Rewarding-Employees-Who-Phone-It-In">announcement
that Microsoft would allow employees to build their own companies writing
Windows 7 Series Windows Mobile applications.

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