Episode 0x12: Karen's New Job; Supreme Court on Patents

Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the
recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents.

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Segment 0 (00:37)

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Karen
is now the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. (04:30)

Bradley served on the GNOME
Foundation Executive Director Hiring Committee, but resigned when Karen became a serious
candidate. (05:13)

Karen will continue as General Counsel of Question
Copyright, and pro-bono counsel to Software Freedom Conservancy, and
will also continue pro bono on some matters for SFLC. (06:30)

Bradley has been working
on GNU
Bash. (07:34)

Berlin's Tegel
airport is closing soon. (14:40)

Bradley mentioned that he incorrectly said in 0x11 that Red Hat
doesn't provide sources publicly for RHEL. The RHEL SRPMS
are actually on Red Hat's FTP site. (18:20)

There are various identica
threads on the RHEL issue from 0x11.(18:47)

Bradley has previously explained the history of the term
“punditocracy” in episode 0x0A. (27:46)

Segment 1 (28:58)

Bradley and Karen discuss the USA Supreme
Court decision in the Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB
S. A. case, on which SFLC
submitted an amicus brief, which was previously discussed in FaiF Episode
0x05. (29:55)

Bradley and Karen discuss the USA
Supreme Court decision in the Microsoft Corp. v. i4i
Ltd. Partnership case, on which the EFF submitted an
amicus brief. (40:11)

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