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Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the
recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents.

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Segment 0 (00:37)

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• href="http://www.gnome.org/press/2011/06/karen-sandler-named-new-executive-director-of-the-gnome-foundation/">Karen
  is now the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. (04:30)
• Bradley served on the href="http://blogs.gnome.org/gpoo/2010/12/27/executive-director-hiring-committee/">GNOME
  Foundation Executive Director Hiring Committee, but href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/06/21/karen-gnome.html">resigned when Karen became a serious
  candidate. (05:13)
• Karen will continue as href="http://questioncopyright.org/about">General Counsel of Question
  Copyright, and pro-bono counsel to href="http://sfconservancy.org">Software Freedom Conservancy, and
  will also continue pro bono on some matters for SFLC. (06:30)
• Bradley has been href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-06/msg00045.html">working
  on GNU
  Bash. (07:34)
• href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Tegel_Airport">Berlin's Tegel
  airport is closing soon. (14:40)
• Bradley mentioned that he incorrectly said in 0x11 that Red Hat
  doesn't provide sources publicly for RHEL. The href="http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/">RHEL SRPMS
  are actually on Red Hat's FTP site. (18:20)
• There are various href="http://identi.ca/conversation/74195700#notice-76717065">identica
  threads on the RHEL issue from 0x11.(18:47)
• Bradley has previously explained the href="http://faif.us/cast/2011/mar/01/0x0A/">history of the term
  “punditocracy” in episode 0x0A. (27:46)

Segment 1 (28:58)

• Bradley and Karen discuss the href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/10-6.pdf">USA Supreme
  Court decision in the Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB
  S. A. case, on which href="http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2010/sflc-seb-amicus.pdf">SFLC
  submitted an amicus brief, which was previously href="http://faif.us/cast/2010/dec/21/0x05/">discussed in FaiF Episode
  0x05. (29:55)
• Bradley and Karen discuss the href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/10-290.pdf">USA
  Supreme Court decision in the Microsoft Corp. v. i4i
  Ltd. Partnership case, on which href="http://www.eff.org/cases/microsoft-v-i4i">the EFF submitted an
  amicus brief. (40:11)

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