Free As In Freedom

Karen and Bradley discuss recent debates about the value of non-profit organizations for Free Software. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Fontana (and other Red Hat employees) pointed out some imprecision in what Bradley said in Episode 0x1D about Debian non-free. (01:07) A call for participation has been announced for the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012. Please submit a proposal by 30 December 2011 (04:30) A recent debate about non-profits started, initiated by a blog post called Apache Considered Harmful. (12:55) Karen and Bradley briefly mentioned that some now believe that Considered Harmful Considered Harmful (13:16) A long thread on this issue occurred on the FLOSS Foundations mailing list (13:45) Bradley made an official Conservancy Blog post about the value of non-profits for Free Software (14:17) Sourceforge became proprietary software in 2001, as is well-described in this by The Sourceforge