FLOSS Weekly (Audio)

Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps, and Leo Laporte gather to celebrate the final victory of free software and open source—and the final FLOSS Weekly as well.

Hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, and Simon Phipps

Guest: Leo Laporte

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Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities that are also businesses.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: Adam Jacob

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Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett go deep into what's happening in the fediverse with Evan Prodromou, the co-creator of ActivityPub, the open protocol behind Mastodon and other truly social networks on the Internet.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Evan Prodromou

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Doc Searls and Dan Lynch explore long-standing ethical and technical imperatives of the free software and open source movements, and the wild new challenges they face in an age of AI that is still just beginning.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

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Philip Griffiths of OpenZiti explains to Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Jonathan Bennett how OpenZiti is on its way to becoming the Linux of secure networking.

• An overview of OpenZiti and how it implements zero trust principles by putting private networks inside applications.
• How OpenZiti functions similarly to a VPN.
• OpenZiti's security and how it authorizes connections.

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Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Luis Villa of Tidelift about how it helps code maintainers get paid, plus what's happening in AI, ML, regulation and more.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps

Guest: Luis Villa

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Frank Karlitschek joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Nextcloud. Nextcloud is a fast-growing open source collaboration platform that gives customers a huge array of capabilities, all independent of giant gatekeepers.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett

Guest: Frank Karlitschek

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Our guest this week was Jon "maddog" Hall, the Linux Legend, until his connection from Brazil dropped. At any rate, Dan Lynch and Doc Searls went deep into the differences between GPL licenses v2 and v3 on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Jon "maddog" Hall

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Aral Balkan of the Small Technology Foundation talks with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch about the small web, the tame little server called Kitten, and much more about the wide open world we've been losing and how to get it back.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Aral Balkan

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Cooper Quintin of the EFF treats Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman to plenty of wisdom about the extremes of constant personal privacy exposure online, and how some of the worst threats can come from people you know.

• The stalkerware industry that allows people to spy on victims easily.
• How can we truly decentralize social media?
• The expanding data broker industry.
• Effective mitigation like encryption tools and pushing for ...

Listen closely for The Phipps Certification, and you'll also get news about 3D printing, AlmaLinux, a big EFF win, spyware in new cars and other hot topics on a table surrounded by Simon Phipps, Jonathan Bennett, Shawn Powers, and Doc Searls.

• Carl Malamud's fight to make the law open to citizens through his non-profit Public Resource.
• How 3D printing is transforming open hardware through the sharing of designs
• Mozilla's r...

Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Michael "Hoff" Hoffman, Co-founder and CEO of IQXR, about open source in AI, immersive technologies, and much more - and what needs to happen before it all gets normal.

• What are the differences between virtual, augmented, and mixed reality?
• The challenges holding back widespread virtual / augmented reality, such as the lack of standards.
• Privacy concerns around augmented & vir...

Writing a tech book is easy if you start with the proper guidance. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett get that guidance and much more from Kyle Rankin, author of How to Write a Tech Book.

• The benefits of using LaTeX for formatting and layout when self-publishing.
• How to pitch a book idea to traditional tech publishers like O'Reilly.
• Advice on when you're ready to write your first tech book based on your skills.
• How to make th...

Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Nathan Freitas, founder of the Guardian Project about ProofMode. A way to turn photos, videos, and other digital artifacts into secure signed digital evidence. Plus, the many other things the Project is up to.

• Proof Mode for Data Verification
• Future of Open Source and AI
• Balancing Privacy and Functionality in Journalism
• Guardian Project Funding and Future Plans
• Discussion on Surveilla...
  

Doc Searls, Dan Lynch, and Jonathan Bennett talk about what happens when open source companies get too big for the licenses that helped them get there, and how their communities are dealing with that.

• Red Hat recently changed its source code distribution rules, prompting other vendors like Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association in response. What are the implications of these changes, and do Red Ha...

Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Claude Warren, Jr. about open source culture going back to coffee shops in the 1600s, how open source manners matter, and much more on this episode of FLOSS Weekly.

• The concept of open source projects as "insurance" against risk and companies that fund them for risk reduction.
• InnerSource as an open source practice to develop and establish an open source-like culture within organizat...

On FLOSS Weekly, Dave Taht takes a break and pauses while saving the world from bufferbloat to treat Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to delightful discourses on music and low-latency conferencing and online jams.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Dan Lynch

Guest: Dave Taht

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What lawsuits become frivolous in a digital age that just entered its AI epoch? Attorney Damien Riehl knows and is making it all happen with a raft of projects he talks about with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman

Guest: Damien Riehl

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William Kwok speaks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about Apache SeaTunnel, an exciting and extremely useful open-source way to synchronize multiple databases.

Hosts: Doc Searls and Shawn Powers

Guest: William Kwok

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