Episode 788 transcript

FLOSS-788 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 788, recorded Wednesday, June 19th. Matrix! It's Git, but for communications. Hey, this week Simon joins me, and we talk with Josh and Matthew from the Matrix Foundation and the company Element. It's the Federated Uncentralized Communication Platform and some of the challenges they're facing right now between funding and some EU and UK laws that really threaten to put a damper on things. But there's a plan. You don't want to miss it. So stay tuned. Hey, everybody. It is time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett. Today, we've got a really a great and interesting show. Let's go ahead and bring on our co host. We've got Simon. Simon the man. The, the open source guy. The, one of the, one of the stewards of the open source definition, which is kind of important these days, isn't it? Simon: Yes, it, more and more so. There's a lot of pressure. Yeah. On the definition of open source, but particularly because of what's happened in AI and you know, there's a whole show to have about the the there is a word I could use to describe what's going on there But I don't thin…