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.


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 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)


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 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)






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