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This week on the show: An exclusive interview with Bradley Kuhn and Aaron Williamson from the SFLC about their big GPL-enforcement lawsuit this week, Monty going beserk about Oracle and MySQL, Microsoft’s trouble with RMS & Office, the Eric Schmidt PR disaster and much more…

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0:01:26 | Introduction

• Errata: We are sorry for the Archives being down, Dreamhost apparently has been having major problems all over their network
• Vodaphone has a project to make their 3G dongles work properly across all distros and it’s GPLed code
• Go read Dan’s Fedora 12 review to find out what those problems were he was referring to
• On reporting GPL violations: read one of Bradley’s recent blog posts for his experience and advice
• Amazing photos of Lego-staged Hoth scenes
• Beer of the Week: Köstritzer Schwarzbier

0:08:08 | Releases & News

• Ultimate Edition 2.5
• BSD Release: pfSense 1.2.3
• Sabayon Linux 5.1
• Webconverger 5.8
• Thunderbird 3 — F-A-B Virgil!
• gPodder 2.1, Codename: “The Luminous Fish Effect”

• From the Our Governments Suck Ass department: German government decides to waste a lot of its citizens’ tax money
• Asa Dotzler of Mozilla says ditch Google, use Bing because of the Eric Schmidt Disaster
• Gnome proposes vote on split from GNU Project
• Monty goes off the deep end on Oracle deal — more on Groklaw
• Google Goggles now available for Android — but what the hell would you use it for?
• Canonical launches commercial Bazaar support
• Intel, Moblin and the Poulsbo driver mess

0:50:06 | Microwatch

• Windows 7 USB/DVD tool finally released under GPLv2
• “RMS protection” in Office 2003 locks users out of their files

0:57:14 | Interview

We interview Bradley Kuhn and Aaron Williamson from the SFLC and break the story about their GPL-enforcement lawsuit against 14 huge companies (including Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, Western Digital and JVC) about violations of the GPL regarding BusyBox and the reasons behind it.

Follow @bkuhn, @copiesofcopies and @sflc and check out the Software Freedom Law Show.

1:28:43 | Feedback

• Donations: Thanks to Ryan K. and Erik L.!
• Forums: The Crap Alert Program — to be written in all languages under the sun

• Richard Hedenberg sends us an email about ThinkPads, Nokia and Les Pauls — including this picture of how to carry a ThinkPad:

• Peter Lando tells us how much the Parcelforce Worldwide website sucks — ParcelFAIL!
• Will Noakes sent us some more information on the pub wifi troubles from the UK
• Lostnbronx emailed us a link to this story about Microsoft and ancient codecs
• Rico sends us this amazing phone conversation which is probably a fake but still very funny
• More emails this week from Thomas Perl, John (of Arch pen fame), satipera, Peter Cannon, Alistair Munro (aka. B1ackcr0w), Christoph, Dylan Coakley, Shane (L33F3R), doctormo and Danny Piccirillo

• Event: Ubuntu Anime Boston, April 2 (2010) in Boston, Massachusetts

Song: The Elephant In The Room by Dan Lynch

The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license, except the music at the end of the show which is always licensed under the Creative Commons license specified by the artist under the provided link.