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: <q>We care so much
  about software freedom that we would rather use proprietary software than
  have someone else lose their software freedom</q>. (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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