We’re Freedom Socks! And, after another random “season break”, we’re back. This week we run over whats been in the freedom news recently, get all angry about normal people, do an interview with one of our own hosts about the AGPLmail project. Then, we talk about free software and anarchy, before finishing off with a piece of listner feedback.

00:00 Intro - we shake it up a little (lyrics)
01:20 News

• Idling Ibex?
• Give 1 Get 1 in Europe
• Gratis CodeWeavers marketing ploy
• Making real money with free software
• Shuttleworth Spends more Pennies
• Theora moves steadily forwards - where is the big push?
• New GFDL is good for Wikipedia, some people aren’t happy
• Debbian on Hacked G1… Hacked? WTF!
• Netbooks?
• Microsneakiness
• Highfield ends up at MS, we are not surprised
• OSC moans at BBC
• But, BBC aren’t all evil
• Free software desktop cheaper to maintain, omgz
• Bilski ruling - no more software patents?
• Yays
  • Motorola and Google become Gnome sponsors
  • Creative Frees Sound Card Driver

24:00 Two Minutes Hate - The Proles (Ordinary People)
29:10 “Interview” - Ben Webb - AGPLMail
40:30 Speed Review - Wine
40:50 Clever Segment - Free software and anarchy
52:40 Feedback

So, after another delay, we have a new episode. We talk about the latest news, and are impressed by the FSF’s new priority list. Then we get realllly angry about EULAs in our two minutes hate. After this, we do our first in a series of reviews of free software media players. And finally, we discuss the impact of the recession on the free software economy.

00:00 Introduction
03:00 News

• Epic Kernel Fail fixed
• Stallman hates the cloud and says to avoid ruinous comprimises
• FSF Updates Priority List
• New Gnash
• Impact Mozilla
• Novell is Evil
• Debian Stalled
• Wikipedia switches to Ubuntu
• Dell Ubuntu Adverts
• IBM not so evil?
• Parliment blocks phorm
• OOXML is here
• Releases
  • Openoffice 3.0
  • GIMP 2.6

32:20 Two Minutes Hate - EULAs
38:30 Media Player Review part 1 - Bashee and Amarok 1
47:40 Clever Segment - The Recession and Free Software
55:00 The End

So, we’re back after our little break, with better sound quality. We sink our teeth right into the latest and greatest news, including the amazing news from SGI. Then, we send a shipment of hate to the evil DRM fiends at Spore, review TuxGuitar and cleverly discuss the links between Science and free software. Finally, we wrap up the show with some listener feedback.

00:00 Introduction
03:30 News

• SGI mega freedom yays
• Android
• Open Physics “Flexbook”
• UK school’s MS Licensing changes and free software vedors contracted
• Google Chrome made a mistake?
• Mozilla scraps EULA!
• Canonical is hiring people to prettiffy Ubuntu
• Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
• Ubuntu sells propreitary codecs
• Awmendments for Telecoms Package
• UK police won’t investigate Phorm, should we fight?
• Youtube UK only ban
• IBM says no to ISOs
• Cicsco Buys Jabber
• HP tries to pull away from Vista
• Lenovo really is bad
• OLPC teams up with Amazon
• Linux Foundation accepts individual members
• GetGNULinux.org in multiple languages and on TV
• Apple Shoe DRM

41:00 Two Minutes Hate - Spore and DRM
44:30 Review - TuxGuitar
50:00 Clever Segment - Free Software and Science
58:30 Feedback

This week is going to be a little different - the show is longer for a start. We cover this weeks news and express our anger in the Two Minutes Hate as usual, but we also have an interview with Matt Lee from the FSF, mainly about the the recent Stephen Fry video. Remember, you can discuss the show on IRC, the forum or email us feedback.

0:00:00 Introduction
0:03:00 News

• Stephen Fry explains free software
• SHH Attacks in the wild
• RedHat Hacked
• Intel buy Openhand
• VIA releases code
• gNewSense 2.1
• Debian Lenny Live Beta1
• The next Debian will be called Squeeze
• Jokosher 0.10
• Mozilla labs launches ubiquity
• Faster firefox javascript
• Google Chrome
• MS fails at openess
• PageDown patent
• No more OOXML appeals
• NDA for refund
• GNU/Linux in space
• Laser guided robots
• GNU/Linux reaches 13% of server market
• “linux” vs sex

0:29:30 Two Minutes Hate - know-it-alls
0:33:45 Interview with Matt Lee from the FSF
1:12:00 Feedback - Tim Dobson has remixed our theme, Fred Phillips calls us Freedom Haters and Ben Asselstine points us to revealingerrors.com

The sixth sockload of freedom from Freedom Socks. We decide last weeks episode never happened, turn into GNU/Freedom nutters, go over the news, unleash even more hate than usual. We also discuss free software around the world, and how to make people care about free software, before finishing off by reading some feedback.

If you’re young and in the northwest of England, you should go to DFEY! If you’re in Canada, you should go to Ontario Linux Fest.

00:00 Introduction
03:45 News

• Linus says major contributions are difficult
• Linux is crap for photography
• KDE gets an FLA
• Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt
• Dell Latitude ON
• McAfee targets GNU/Linux users, check out the anti-virus xkcd comic
• Dvorak says Adobe will partner with Linux
• Debian on Neo
• Debian is 15
• Canonical Joins Linux Foundation
• Novell still hates freedom
• Novell and Red Hat shares are down
• More ISO craziness
• number10.gov.uk breaks the law
• Phorm complaints being taken seriously

25:15 Two minutes hate - phorm
29:00 Are the UK and US playing catchup?
38:15 Mini hate - Big Brother, police adverts, laptop chargers, usb soundcards and of course Jokosher
41:40 Clever segment - Making free software matter
53:00 Feedback

The fifth episode of Freedom Socks! This episode is a bit different to say the least. Joe is on holiday at the moment, so this episode features a friend called Jamie. Unfortunately, the pesky echo has also snuck back in a little. So, basically, this show is not representitive of the others, although we’d love to hear your feedback.

00:00 Introduction
01:10 News

• Empathy in Gnome
• New OpenMoko Software
• Getdeb.net announces Playbuntu
• Community Distros Ready for Enterprise adoption
• Hugging Openess
• Open source technology is hungry for new college grads OMNOMNOM
• SuSE Linux on low end MiniNotes
• Dell updates to hardy, and has it on two new machines
• NBC turns it back on “older systems
• Horseracing youtube clampdown
• Laywers spreading FUD because there aren’t enough lawsuits in FOSS

17:30 Two minutes hate: iPods, the iPhone, and apple in general
20:15 Music industry
31:50 Clever Segment: Free software for the masses, and what we call suff
45:50 The End

The fourth installment of Freedom Socks! We go over this weeks news, review dvorak and the naughty ktouch and vent our fustration with jokosher. Then, we review some Linux games, and discuss their ethics, before finishing off with some of your feedback.

00:00 Intro - we have a slogan; I violated the GPL, by not having sources on my repo; Tuna did a  talk at OSCON, followed by ToonsOnLinux having a referendum

02:30 News

• Foxconn made a mistake
• 3% Linux preinstalls
• IBM partners with Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical to push out Microsoft
• VMWare joins Linux foundation
• Freespire goes back to debian
• Android will be good…. honest
• New Mozilla Concept Browser
• Releases
  • Tux3 filesystem
  • AppChecker
  • Wifi tool open sourced
  • New lightwight gnomey DE
  • gOS 3 released, with google gadgets
• Netbooks
  • Growing netbooks
  • Lenevo IdeaPad Notebook
  • Very cheap mini notebooks
• Rights
  • Open Source voting machine
  • EU quetions UK about phorm [1]
  • 88% Youtube = original
  • EFF beats Uri Geller

22:00 Cory Doctorow
22:20 Review - Dvorak, ktouch is rather rude, and we create our own layout
26:50 Two Minutes Hate - Jokosher
30:00 Review - Linux Games
43:10 Clever Segment - Ethics of Games
53:20 Feedback
56:40 The End

Another installment of Freedom Socks! Jokosher is still being a bith, so we probably still have echo, and countless other problems with the recording. However, we still talk about a lot of interesting stuff including:

00:00 Introduction - Teen Linux merger, DFEY and pictures
03:20 News:

• Shifty Foxconn BIOS
• Microsoft being nice?
• Software releases:
  • Banshee 1.2
  • Google Gadgets for Linux
  • Open Atheros Driver, FSF is happy
  • KDE 4.1 (but the nvidia drivers aren’t good)
  • Debian Lenny in September, packages now frozen
  • Firefox 3 alpha 1
• Linux on industrial computers
• Ubuntu aims for Intel devices, Intel Moblin switches to Fedora
• Mandriva on the Emtec Gdium
• Artist gets a very raw deal
• FSF question geniuses
• Cyclists with cameras
• Funny README
• Job applicant gets found out

22:40 BBC Backstage
26:40 Troll Watch - anti-women trolls
34:50 Two Minutes hate - Why we wish the music and movie industries would hurry up and die
37:50 Clever Segment - How far should freedom go?
51:20 Feedback

Availible, as always in ogg and mp3, or user the player below.

00:00 Introduction - responding to feedback on audio quality
01:30 Teen Linux groups merger?
02:40 News

• Unexpected recording hiccups
• Gnome 3 announced and Miguel d’Icaza doesn’t like it
• P2P not hurting DVD or bluray sales
• Evil Microsoft executives take over BBC
• How evil is Bill Gates
• EU wants copyright extension, professionals say no, you can help by signing this petition
• Dell will start shipping Hardy, and has funny adverts
• Sco is actually guilty
• Apt-get moo doesn’t look like a cow :O
• Linus Torvalds says the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, Digg users are Wanking Walruses

12:50 Conferences

• OSCON - Teensonlinux will be there, and also Mark Shuttleworth says we need to out pretty apple and will open source launchpad
• LugradioLive

21:20 Two Mintues Hate - this week its OOXML
24:00 Review - Ubuntu Studio
32:10 Troll Watch - Mainly Youtube trolls, on Joe’s videos - here and here
38:10 Clever Segment - Are proprietary apps on linux a blessing or a curse?
45:50 Contact details