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

<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>