New Linux Foundation Podcast: 'Untold Stories of Open Source'

The nonprofit Linux Foundation pays Linus Torvalds' salary and supports many other open source projects. But they also launched a new podcast series this week covering "The Untold Stories of Open Source."

"Each week we explore the people who are supporting Open Source projects, how they became involved with it, and the problems they faced along the way," explains the podcast's GitHub page (where you can put in a pull request to suggest future episodes or track the project's progress.)

The podcast is available on its official web page, as well as on Spotify, Apple, Google, or "wherever you listen to your podcasts," according to an announcement from the Linux Foundation. An introductory page says the podcast will be "used to inform the Linux and Open Source communities as to the current state in development of open source initiatives and Linux Foundation Projects. It is vendor neutral, with no interviews of commercial product vendors or sales teams."

Here's the first four episodes:

• Balancing Priorities at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, with Priyanka Sharma, general manager

• A Life in Open Source, with Brian Behlendorf, general manager at Open Source Security Foundation

• A New Model for Technical Training, with Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president of the Linux Foundation's training/certification project

• The Business Side of Open Source, with Patrick Debois, "godfather of DevOps"

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[zenlessyank]

Cut down on watching porn.

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[drinkypoo]

Go on, pull the other one.

DRM??

[lkcl]

why is my browser saying - on a *linux* podcast page - "this podcast page requires DRM to play it"
wtf??

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[tendrousbeastie]

Indeed. Is this podcast (freely) available as an audio-file download somehow, or is the only way to access this podcast about "free" and "open" software to use a hopeless closed service such as Spotify?

Re:DRM??

[drinkypoo]

Because they used Spotify to deliver the audio.

You want to know what's more fucked up than that? I went to the page to see what would happen if I tried to play the content. As it turns out, it simply begins to demand more content from other sites, among them chrt.fm. I went to www.chrt.fm to see what it was and it turns out that it is a parked domain. Their page is trying to load content from a parked domain when people try to play the audio. And then it turns out that the content won't play if you don't enable scripts from sentry.io, what is that? Turns out it's a tracker.

So in summary, in order to play these Linux podcasts, you have to enable DRM, you have to be tracked by a third party, and you have to risk your browser being compromised by scripts pulled in from a foreign domain that could be purchased by a malicious attacker.

I don't think the Linux Foundation actually understands the Linux user mentality, at all. This is by corporations, for corporations. I never even did get the audio to play, because I wasn't willing to enable the tracker.

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[drinkypoo]

P.S. I cannot replicate the chrt.fm thing, I wish I had kept closer attention to my exact sequence of steps of what scripts I enabled when

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[exomondo]

I don't think the Linux Foundation actually understands the Linux user mentality, at all.

Actually I think they do very well, if you were talking about the "Free Software Foundation" then I would agree with you, but not the Linux Foundation. You may be surprised to learn how much of Hollywood production is done on Linux for example, the Academy Software Foundation [www.aswf.io] was launched as a joint venture between the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Linux Foundation, indeed this is a lot of corporations working together to create and contribute to Open Source projects.

Likewise with Linu

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[Tough Love]

The Linux Foundation is a standing joke in the community.

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[exomondo]

why is my browser saying - on a *linux* podcast page - "this podcast page requires DRM to play it" wtf??

Because it's the Linux Foundation, not the Free Software Foundation.

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[Tough Love]

Because the Linux Foundation is little more than a mutual admiration society for PHBs and the source of Linus's paycheck.

I listened to the first episode..

[strUser_Name]

..found it less inspiring or uplifting than most eulogies.

Fuck this web based shit

[JThundley]

Fuck this web based shit, where can I download the vorbis?!