Episode 0x36: RMS' Ubuntu Essay and Canonical, Ltd.'s Response

18/12/2012 39 min
Episode 0x36: RMS' Ubuntu Essay and Canonical, Ltd.'s Response

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Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on
FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do, and Shuttleworth's
Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments.


Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)



Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on
FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do (08:50)

Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on Linux Outlaws 280) how a search
for “ter” in efforts to find a terminal window in Ubuntu yields
[slightly NSFW] gives results for Rachel Ter Horst
DVDs. (09:44)

Bradley mentioned his
blog post about Nokia's problems interfacing with Free Software
communities. (14:50)

Bradley and Karen discuss Shuttleworth's
Slashdot interview (18:25).

Bradley and Karen also briefly mentioned Jono
Bacon's comments about RMS's essay and Jono's
apology. (19:30)

Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's
comments during his LinuxCon 2011 keynote. (20:14)

Bradley mentioned Douglas
Rushkoff's article, Teach U.S. kids to write computer code
(29:30)






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