Open Sources

Your prayers have been answered! Matt and Dave recorded the first episode of the newly re-named Open Sources Podcast.

Open Season Episode 1 with Dave and Matt

Our previous incarnation of Open Season on The Register also featured the almighty Ashlee Vance who is now fetching coffee at the NY Times. He’s too good for us and it hurts.

We used Skype so the sound quality is good, minus an occasional hum which Ashlee always claimed was the actual computer running. In this episode we talk about ways open source companies can make money and how Dave doesn’t hate Microsoft that much any more.

For the technically interested: I used AudioHijack and Skype to record this sucker then brought the file into Garage Band to edit and add music. We made no attempt to compress the file or do anything fancy since we don’t know how many people will listen.

This site runs Wordpress and I used built-in components for pretty much everything. For some reason the  podPress plugin hates every URL I give it but I have a feeling it’s user error so we bailed out.

The song at the end is “Colony of Birchmen” by Mastodon and we don’t have express written permission to use it which is partly why this isn’t hosted by CNET. I’ll make some music when we reach our millionth download (so like a week from now?)