We're not talking dentistry here; FLOSS is all about Free Libre Open Source Software. Join host Doc Searls and his rotating panel of co-hosts as they talk with the most interesting and important people in the Open Source and Free Software community. Although the show is no longer in production at TWiT, you can enjoy episodes from our archives.
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FLOSS Weekly Continues at Hackaday - Hackaday is the new home of FLOSS Weekly
FLOSS Weekly continues with Jonathan Bennett at its new home at Hackaday. Host: Jonathan Bennett Visit hackaday.com/floss or search your favorite podcatcher to subscribe.
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FLOSS Weekly Continues at Hackaday - Hackaday is the new home of FLOSS Weekly
FLOSS Weekly continues with Jonathan Bennett at its new home at Hackaday. Host: Jonathan Bennett Visit hackaday.com/floss or search your favorite podcatcher to subscribe.
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1 h 16
We Won! - The Victories of Free Software and Open Source
Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Dan Lynch, Simon Phipps, and Leo Laporte gather to celebrate the final victory of free software and open source—and the final FLOSS Weekly as well.…
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1 h 12
Making Money In Open Source - Adam Jacob, Chef & System Initiative
Adam Jacob talks with Doc Searls and Shawn Powers about making money in open source, based on his long experience with Chef, System Initiative, and other development communities th…
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1 h 11
ActivityPub Crawl - Evan Prodromou on ActivityPub & OpenEarth
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett go deep into what's happening in the fediverse with Evan Prodromou, the co-creator of ActivityPub, the open protocol behind Mastodon and other truly…
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1 h 08
Raiders of the Lost Source - Rocky and Oracle Unbreakable Linux, OpenAI Shakeup
Doc Searls and Dan Lynch explore long-standing ethical and technical imperatives of the free software and open source movements, and the wild new challenges they face in an age of…
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1 h 07
Noodling Around with OpenZiti - Philip Griffiths, OpenZiti and Secure Networking
Philip Griffiths of OpenZiti explains to Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Jonathan Bennett how OpenZiti is on its way to becoming the Linux of secure networking. An overview of OpenZi…
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1 h 09
We Won, Now What? - Luis Villa, Tidelift
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Luis Villa of Tidelift about how it helps code maintainers get paid, plus what's happening in AI, ML, regulation and more. Hosts: Doc Searls a…
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1 h 09
Nextcloud - Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud Growth and Updates
Frank Karlitschek joins Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett to talk about Nextcloud. Nextcloud is a fast-growing open source collaboration platform that gives customers a huge array of…
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55 min
Is He Still On? - Jon "maddog" Hall, Caninos Loucos, Open Source vs Free Software
Our guest this week was Jon "maddog" Hall, the Linux Legend, until his connection from Brazil dropped. At any rate, Dan Lynch and Doc Searls went deep into the differences between…
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1 h 05
Small Is Beautiful - Aral Balkan, Small Technology Foundation
Aral Balkan of the Small Technology Foundation talks with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch about the small web, the tame little server called Kitten, and much more about the wide open worl…
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1 h 07
Stalkers Beware - Cooper Quintin on Personal Privacy and TOR University Challenge
Cooper Quintin of the EFF treats Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman to plenty of wisdom about the extremes of constant personal privacy exposure online, and how some of the worst th…
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1 h 07
The Phipps Certification - EFF, AlmaLinux, Vehicle Software and Privacy
Listen closely for The Phipps Certification, and you'll also get news about 3D printing, AlmaLinux, a big EFF win, spyware in new cars and other hot topics on a table surrounded by…
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1 h 03
AI: Just Make It Normal - IQXR, AI and Open Source
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk with Michael "Hoff" Hoffman, Co-founder and CEO of IQXR, about open source in AI, immersive technologies, and much more - and what needs to h…
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1 h 06
That's In Chapter Three - Kyle Rankin, How To Write a Tech Book
Writing a tech book is easy if you start with the proper guidance. Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett get that guidance and much more from Kyle Rankin, author of How to Write a Tech B…
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1 h 09
Show Me The ProofMode - Nathan Freitas, ProofMode
Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Nathan Freitas, founder of the Guardian Project about ProofMode. A way to turn photos, videos, and other digital artifacts into secure signed…
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1 h 09
New, Hot, Big, and Doomed - Business Software License, OpenELA Initiative
Doc Searls, Dan Lynch, and Jonathan Bennett talk about what happens when open source companies get too big for the licenses that helped them get there, and how their communities ar…
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60 min
Don't Hesitate, Enculturate! - Claude Warren Jr, Open Source Culture
Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett talk with Claude Warren, Jr. about open source culture going back to coffee shops in the 1600s, how open source manners matter, and much more on thi…
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1 h 08
The Buffer Bloke - Dave Taht, Music Collab, Private AI
On FLOSS Weekly, Dave Taht takes a break and pauses while saving the world from bufferbloat to treat Doc Searls and Dan Lynch to delightful discourses on music and low-latency conf…
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1 h 08
A Chill Pirate Lawyer - Damien Riehl, Open Source and Legal Rights
What lawsuits become frivolous in a digital age that just entered its AI epoch? Attorney Damien Riehl knows and is making it all happen with a raft of projects he talks about with…