0x61: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part II)

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Bradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote

at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom

Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary

Software. This episode is the second of three episodes where

Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote

address. In this particular episode, they discuss the golden age in

history when they used very little proprietary software, and then discuss

the beginning of their personal Dark Ages of using some proprietary

software.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)

Bradley mentioned The Who's destruction

of their instruments

and his discomfort with it in relation to

computers. (06:10)

Bradley and Karen mentioned their long-time use of the HTC Dream (07:30)

Bradley mentioned that he helped start the Replicant project, but his

primary contribution was its name. (08:24)

Segment 1 (12:34)

Karen mentioned the pinball

machine that she owns

. (12:50)

Bradley mentioned the Dead Kennedys album,

Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death

. (25:10)

Karen and Bradley discuss proprietary Javascript. (28:20)

This is the screen you

get if you attempt to use Google maps without Javascript

. (28:45)

Karen was wrong about this image no longer appearing. The image linked

to here is from the day before our FOSDEM keynote was delivered. (29:55)

Bradley and Karen recorded this episode while on site at LinuxConf

Australia 2019. They had dinner the night this was recorded at a

restaurant called, Dux Dine in

Christchurch, NZ. There were, in fact,

ducks dining at Dux Dine. (35:07)

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