Karen pointed out that some of the recent arguments about C# started due to RMS’ statements on the matter. Others have also blogged. (04:24)
Bradley mentioned the launch of the DotGNU project (04:30), which included Portable.NET (05:04)
Bradley mentioned that C# descends from J++ work inside Microsoft, which became a point of contention between Sun and Microsoft. (06:50)
Bradley mentioned his blog post that has the same topic as this podcast. (11:17)
Meanwhile, back at the point is a reference to LUG Radio, which is based on the phrase Meanwhile, back at the ranch. The origins of the latter phrase is likely unclear, although an unsourced Wikipedia article claims it was a phrase frequently used by narrators of black & white American cowboy movies and TV shows of the 1940s and 1950s. (12:18)
Bjarne Stroustrup (15:09) published his first article on C++ in February 1983 (15:21). His paper on C++ history tells the story of its creation.
Segment 1 (16:05)
Bradley mentioned John Case, his Theory of Computation professor from graduate school, who always does proofs by “cases” (16:32).
Bradley and Karen mentioned they used to have the SFLC phone system hooked up to Zoip. (17:39)
Bradley mentioned that we should End Software Patents.(20:35)
Bradley mentioned the TomTom case, which he’s blogged about and was the topic of Episode 0x0B. (26:15)
Debian now includes Mono in its base install (28:03), and Ubuntu published a position statement, which Karen read from in the show (26:30). There is an Ubuntu wiki page opposing it. Fedora has included it for some time.
Bradley mentioned that very few companies have made an overreaching promise to licenses all their patents in a way acceptable for Free Software. Red Hat is one of them, although their promise isn’t perfect, it has some value. (33:34)
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Bradley and Karen were in San Francisco attending the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit (00:46)
“Producer Dan” is Dan Lynch of half baked media. (01:10)
Bradley mentioned Nehru jackets, notably worn by Ricardo MontalbA!n as Khan in Star Trek. (01:23)
On 30 March 2009, Microsoft and TomTom settled their patent dispute. (2:30)
Bradley mentioned two articles on 29 December 2008 and on 29 January 2009 in SD Times where he and Sam Ramji debated Microsoft’s policies toward the FLOSS community. (04:20)
Karen and Bradley talk about Microsoft’s historic patent threats against Linux. Bradley refers to Microsoft’s assertions just 16 months before its aggression with TomTom. (4:29)
Bradley mentions that many agree that Microsoft’s FAT file patent should not be considered a valid patent. (6:30)
Karen discusses periodic filings required by the U.S. securities laws and thresholds of materiality for information to be included in those filings. (12:34)
Bradley mentioned Section 7 of GPLv2. (14:20)
Segment 1 (17:53)
Karen discusses the Edgar system, which has since been succeeded by IDEA. The filings that Karen mentions of Novell’s agreements with Microsoft (with confidential treatment) are available here and here. (21:40)
Bradley explained the date in Section 11 of GPLv3 that puts companies on notice that side patent deals after that date would violate GPLv3. (23:18)
Send feedback and comments on the FaiF oggcast to or . You can keep in touch with the SFLC on our IRC channel, #sflc on irc.freenode.net, and by following SFLC on identi.ca.
If your not-for-profit FLOSS project needs legal assistance, write to .
The Software Freedom Law Show was produced by Dan Lynch of half baked media. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.
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