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Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement

Free as in Freedom episode 0x0E

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This episode is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk.

Running time: 01:02:48.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:34)

  • Bradley is still recovering from a 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 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 live-denting Fontana's LCS talk. (04:31)
  • Richard Fontana is the purveyor of the disturbing group on identi.ca. (04:30)
  • Fontana makes reference to a 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 FaiF 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)

  • Fontana made an interesting analogy to commissioned art and its similarity to FLOSS. (50:33)
  • Fontana noted later on identi.ca that he does support non-profit as solution to entanglement problem. (54:48)
  • Bradley mentioned the 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 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)
  • Tags: fontana, red hat, non-profits, conferences, governance


    Fontana Redux

    Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x1E

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    Karen and Bradley interview this show's first-ever second-time guest, Richard Fontana, who is an Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel at Red Hat.

    Running time: 00:49:44.

    Show Notes

    Segment 0 (00:29)

    Bradley and Karen introduce the guest, Richard Fontana.

    Segment 1 (00:58)

    [Photo of Richard Fontana]

    Segment 2 (44:19)

    • Karen points out that license interpretation is often an exercise in risk analysis. (45:02)

    Tags: bkuhn, karen, fontana, red hat, copyrights, gpl


    Patented Languages

    Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x11

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    Bradley and Karen discuss the community debate regarding C# and Mono, and its inclusion in GNU/Linux distributions.

    Running time: 00:37:23.

    Show Notes

    Segment 0 (00:30)

    Segment 1 (16:05)

    Tags: bkuhn, karen, fsf, red hat, patents, gnome


    Lawyers Who Wear Fedoras

    Software Freedom Law Show episode 0x04

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    Richard Fontana, Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel from Red Hat, joins us for an in-depth interview.

    Running time: 00:33:52.

    Show Notes

    [Photo of Richard Fontana]

    Segment 0 (00:43)

    • Bradley mentioned that the Fedora Project is sponsored by Red Hat, where Richard Fontana works. (01:50)
    • Fontana was involved in the GPLv3 Process.

    Segment 1 (11:58)

    Interview with Richard Fontana.

    Tags: bkuhn, karen, gplv3, fontana, red hat