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This episode is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk, Open Source Projects and
Corporate Entanglement from the href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/legal">2011
Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and
Karen on the talk.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:34)

• Bradley is still recovering from a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinovirus">rhinovirus which he
  didn't take care of and also made him sicker, which explains the
  problems with his voice. In fact, the coughing in the background during
  Fontana's talk is all Bradley. He apologizes. (00:50)
• This show is Richard Fontana's href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/legal">Linux
  Collaboration Summit 2011 talk, Open Source Projects and
  Corporate Entanglement. (03:24)

Segment 1 (03:48)

• Richard Fontana's
  slides for his talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate
  Entanglement are available on his website. (04:29)
• Bradley was href="http://identi.ca/conversation/68336780">live-denting
  Fontana's LCS talk. (04:31)
• Richard Fontana is the purveyor of the href="http://identi.ca/group/disturbing">disturbing group on
  identi.ca. (04:30)
• Fontana makes reference to a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/01/14/ubuntu-debian.html">Bradley's
  blog post on switching back to Debian from Ubuntu. (05:55)
• Fontana pointed out
  that the GNU Manifesto deals a lot with how
  Free Software is completely compatible with many business models.
  (12:30)
• Fontana pointed out
  that many of the relationships between companies in Free software
  have great variability in level of transparency. (16:00)
• In the background, you hear Bradley saying something. He's giving
  Josh Berkus credit for the phrase throw code over the wall, a
  phrase which both Fontana and Bradley now use regularly. (32:28)

Segment 2 (48:25)

• href="http://identi.ca/conversation/68336780#notice-70633678">Fontana
  made an interesting analogy to commissioned art and its similarity
  to FLOSS. (50:33)
• Fontana noted later on
  identica that he does support non-profit as solution to entanglement
  problem. (54:48)
• Bradley mentioned the href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/15/60minutes/main20054397.shtml">60
  Minutes story about Mortenson's Central Asia Institute (CAI). (55:30)
• Fontana now talking
  about GE/NBC relationship, but Bradley was surprised that Fontana
  didn't mention Ben
  Bagdikian's href="http://benbagdikian.net/Docs/excerpts.htm">book, The Media
  Monopoly. (18:26, 56:30)

• Bradley was glad that
  Fontana called proprietary relicensing illegitimate. Bradley points
  out that sometimes community members, including himself, have too
  easily forgiven business models on the edges of software
  freedom. (25:13, 30:50 58:30)

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