Free Software Round Table (FSRT)

This extended, extreme FSRT episode is hosted by: Bill Burns, Brian Fix, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Justin Seyster, and engineered by Bobanero. When the show began there was almost no snow on the roads, by the time we left there was well over a foot of snow. As a result most of the participants had to spend the nigh in unfamiliar places around stony brook. All the things we do for Free Software.

The following topics were discussed:

• Public domain, government collected information
• Linux 2.6.32 released [ 1 ]
• DRBD is mainlined, to be included in 2.6.33 [ 1 ]
• IBM to run linux on mainframes [1]
• SFLC Busybox lawsuit [1] [2]
• Oracle addresses mysql concerns [1]
• Bug Offsets

This is an extra special FSRT episode, as we have a practicing intellectual property attorney, John F. Vodopia (jvodopia gmail com) on as a guest. We cover some consequences of the Bilski case and patent law in general. Regular hosts include Brian Fix, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Jonathan Dahan, Kupo and as always engineered by Bobanero.

This special fund-raising episode is hosted by: Bill Burns, Chris Knadle, Brian Fix, Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Jonathan Dahan, and engineered by Bobanero.

The following topics were discussed:

• In Re Bilski -- RedHat et al file amiacus brief [1] [2]
• Texas Instruments goes after Hobbyists and modders. [1
• London Stock Exchage moves to linux [1]
• Shuttleworth on user experience testing [1]
• Debian KFreeBSD [1]
• Hulu Client for linux [1]

This episode is hosted by: Ilya (dotCOMmie) Sukhanov, Jonathan Dahan, Justin Seyster, Kupo, and engineered by Bobanero. We also had a special guest, Scott Shawcroft who started and continues to run the OS Watershed project.

The following topics were discussed:

• Free Software Day [1]
• BFS Scheduler [1]
• OS Watershed, interview with Scott Shawcroft [1]
• IBM employees switch Symphony from Microsoft Office [1]
• Debian switches to upstart [1]
• Linux kernel version 2.6.31 [1] [2]
• RHEL, xen -- no, KVM yes [1]
• Gimp single window mode [1] [2]