0x62: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part III)

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Bradley and Karen have the last pre-talk installment of discussing the

preparation for 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 third of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record

their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this

particular episode, they discuss the issue of letting others use

proprietary software on your behalf, the problem of relying too much on

that, and then finish up discussing with how they'll include this

material into the final talk.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:34)

Karen discussed the idea of a shabbos goy, and the

analogy between that and allowing other people use proprietary on your

behalf. (02:58)

Bradley and Karen discussed that it is equally abhorrent to ask

someone else to use proprietary software for you as it is to use

yourself, since someone's software freedom is compromised in any event

(06:58)

Bradley mentioned that he had previously applied to serve on the

USA's Internal Revenue Service (IRS)'s Electronic

Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). Bradley mentioned how

sadly the IRS typically accepts

people from proprietary software companies like Intuit but has to his

knowledge never accepted anyone involved in FOSS software for IRS form

preparation (10:02)

Bradley mentioned the Free Software PDF fill-in tools evince and flpsed (12:24)

Karen stated that Conservancy's policy is that: We care so much

about software freedom that we would rather use proprietary software than

have someone else lose their software freedom

. (15:20)

Karen mentioned that her Linux Conf

Australia 2019

, Right to Not

Broadcast

, which you can view online. (22:18)

Segment 1 (23:15)

Bradley mentioned the A-Team line, “I love it when

a plan comes together”

. (23:23)

Bradley and Karen generally discuss the final plans for incorporating

this material into the keynote

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