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

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

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) Send feedback and comments on the cast to <[email protected]>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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December 18, 201239m 57s

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<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x36_RMS-Ubuntu.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x36_RMS-Ubuntu.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p> Karen and Bradley discuss <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do">RMS' essay on FSF's website, <cite>Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do</cite></a>, and <a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/09/1828238/mark-shuttleworth-answers-your-questions">Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments</a>. </p> </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:36)</h4> <ul> <li>Karen and Bradley discuss <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do">RMS' essay on FSF's website, <cite>Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do</cite> </a> (08:50)</il> <li>Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on <a href="http://sixgun.org/linuxoutlaws-280/">Linux Outlaws 280</a>) how a <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Ubuntu-Desktop-12-10-1730978.html?page=3;view=zoom;zoom=5">search for &ldquo;ter&rdquo; in efforts to find a terminal window in Ubuntu yields [slightly NSFW]</a> gives results for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Ter_Horst">Rachel Ter Horst</a> DVDs. (09:44)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/08/18/open-source-not-panacea.html">his blog post about Nokia's problems interfacing with Free Software communities</a>. (14:50)</li> <li>Bradley and Karen discuss <a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/12/09/1828238/mark-shuttleworth-answers-your-questions">Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview</a> (18:25).</li> <li>Bradley and Karen also briefly mentioned <a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/">Jono Bacon's comments about RMS's essay</a> and <a href="http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/10/on-being-childish-an-apology/">Jono's apology</a>. (19:30)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth_at_Linuxcon">Shuttleworth's comments during his LinuxCon 2011 keynote.</a> (20:14)</li> <li>Bradley mentioned <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/10/opinion/rushkoff-code-writing/index.html">Douglas Rushkoff's article, <cite>Teach U.S. kids to write computer code</cite></a> (29:30)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>

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