Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/09/28/two-faif.html

I’ve not been particularly good at keeping up with this blog here,
although I have generally kept up with the oggcast that I co-host with
Karen
Sandler, Free as in Freedom,
which is released every two weeks.

Episode 0x18 was a
recording of my OSCON 2011 talk, 12 Years of Compliance: A
Historical Perspective, which may be of interest to those who enjoy
hearing about stories of GPL enforcement. It’s available
in ogg
and mp3,
and
the slides
are available if you want to follow along while you listen.

Today’s episode
0x19 (available
as ogg
or mp3)
is a bunch of discussion about various topics. Karen talks
about GNOME
3.2, I discuss various issues with
the identi.ca upgrade (in particular,
the fact it still locks-in your data and won’t let me export it), and
the issue of UEFI so-called “secure” booting.

On the last point, I strongly recommend everyone look
at Matthew Garrett’s
blog post about UEFI. I’ve not been completely happy with what
Matthew has said since his initial post on the subject —
it seems like he wants
to find a way to support UEFI for GNU/Linux systems and I think we
should refuse — but Matthew is pointing out
that Microsoft is
misleading people in its anti-software-freedom campaigns (like
always).