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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