Simon Phipps webmink@identi.ca
Southampton, United Kingdom
Software freedom and digital rights activist, photographer, writer, speaker, consultant, floor wax. Find me via https://webm.ink
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2013-08-04T17:07:45Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
I remain amazed how being non-negative about Canonical attracts such hostility.Greg Grossmeier, Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) likes this.
First of all, thanks a lot for your in-depth answer to my previous comment (which I've noticed only now due to some lingering weirdness in pump.io notifications ;-)). I wonder, did you get specific negative / anti-canonical feedbacks to your video interview with Mark this time? Yes, I'm very well aware of vitriolic anti-canonical feedback in other occasion, but this time, at least the discussion here on pump.io seems decent enough. It's "just" people with different limit-of-compromise, as you put it, but they all seem quite supportive of the attempt of having a "more" free smartphone on the market, don't you think? Just checking if our respective perceptions are completely skewed, and in different directions, or if you were referring to past episodes :-)Stefano Zacchiroli at 2013-08-04T21:15:23Z
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I have had one or two push-backs elsewhere (hence the comment), but nothing here on the Pump pipes - my comments in the InfoWorld article were more a reflection of Mark's comments in the pre-interview discussion. I've not seen much comment at all here.
Simon, I have no interest in giving you a hard time about doing an interview with Shuttleworth, but Shuttleworth has been quite aggressive in his opposition of folks who do my type of work. He's called me a McCarthyist and "insecure in my beliefs" because I uphold copyleft, and he's said that Canonical's business plan is to violate the GPL on Linux. At OSCON, when I told him as smalltalk I'm working hard on non-profits, Shuttleworth told me that non-profit executives were overpaid and not held accountable enough like for-profit executives. The guy treats people who fight for software freedom with contempt. He can do what he wants, and I'm not condemning you for interviewing someone rich and famous, but he's not really focused on working for software freedom. Software freedom is a means to a different end for him. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/12/14/unamerican-mccarthyist-cancer.html is my full post about Shuttleworth's comments on Linux GPL enforcement.Bradley M. Kuhn at 2013-08-06T23:52:57Z
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2013-08-03T16:15:37Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Bruce Sterling on The Ecuadorian Library:"People, you couldn’t trust any of these three guys to go down to the corner grocery for a pack of cigarettes. Stallman would bring you tiny peat-pots of baby tobacco plants, then tell you to grow your own. Assange would buy the cigarettes, but smoke them all himself while coding up something unworkable. And Ed would set fire to himself, to prove to an innocent mankind that tobacco is a monstrous and cancerous evil that must be exposed at all costs.
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And yet the three of them together, they look just amazing. They are fantastic figures, like the promise of otherworldly aid from a superhero comic. They are visibly stronger than they’ve ever been before. They have the initiative in a world afflicted with comprehensive helplessness."Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Evan Prodromou, Scott Sweeny likes this.
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I'm not sure I really understand that quote :-) But that picture is pretty powerful, though!
All three are heroes of mine for some things they've done. That doesn't mean I have to agree with them on every issue or that I look to them for "perfect role models" in other aspects of life.
Also I'm OK with them not buying cigarettes for their friends, no one should :-)
sazius old account at 2013-08-03T17:37:13Z
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2013-08-02T17:04:38Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
I checked the transcript of the video and Mark Shuttleworth definitely committed to Free software in the Edge phone:Simon: So what’s going to be in there? That’s all going to be free software?
Mark: Yes, we’ll ship this with Android and Ubuntu, no plans to put proprietary applications on it. We haven’t finalised the silicon selection so we’re looking at the next generation silicon from all major vendors. I would like to ship it with all Free drivers.James Bryce Clark, Blaise Alleyne, James Robertson, Scott Sweeny and 1 others likes this.
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Simon, I want to believe you are right with regard to Mark Shuttleworth, i.e. that his ultimate goal is software freedom, and he is just making different strategic choices than others. But with them even making proprietary software in house (i.e. Ubuntu One, and Launchpad earlier) I have a hard time doing that.
That was the main topic of our one hour conversation, FWIW :-)Simon Phipps at 2013-08-03T15:33:23Z
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It is unfortunate you didn't record that conversation :-) It would have been very interesting. But I guess with the mic on it wouldn't have been as interesting :-)
sazius old account at 2013-08-03T16:33:47Z
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2013-08-02T12:11:39Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
I recorded an interview about Ubuntu Edge with Mark Shuttleworth last week at OSCON: http://youtu.be/-HNFBHwcrFMstav@microca.st, Stephen Michael Kellat, Scott Sweeny, ClaudioM likes this.
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I enjoyed your interviews on FLOSS Weekly recently along with Randal's as well. Fun show to listen to. :-)ClaudioM at 2013-08-02T13:05:54Z
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Thanks! This interview is a segment from this week's "clips" show.Simon Phipps at 2013-08-02T13:34:02Z
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2013-08-01T14:01:21Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Great list of features and strengths shows the energy of the LibreOffice community: https://www.libreoffice.org/features/why-libreofficeEvan Prodromou likes this.
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2013-07-16T23:46:39Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Does anyone have a cartridge to run pump.io on OpenShift yet? Looks like ideal trainer wheels for a new user.Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠), Stephen Michael Kellat likes this.
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There was one a while ago... let me see if I can find it. I agree, great app for PaaS.Evan Prodromou at 2013-07-16T23:50:14Z
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https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/wiki/OpenshiftEvan Prodromou at 2013-07-16T23:54:55Z
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Great, thanks. Followed the instructions, got it running but no idea now how to customise it. More hacking tomorrow I guess :-)
Outstanding! Reports of Simon's progress may give courage to innumerate, server-fearing lawyer bloggers worldwide ... well, at least one ...James Bryce Clark at 2013-07-17T04:31:41Z
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2013-07-15T22:05:21Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Github finally agrees that repos need a copyright license to ensure users have software freedom: http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/github-finally-takes-open-source-licenses-seriously-...jrobb@microca.st, William L. Anderson, Luis R. Rodriguez, Evan Prodromou likes this.
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2013-07-14T17:10:19Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Geeks playing samba at #FISL14 http://youtu.be/RABhmg9MhRgDeb Nicholson shared by Simon Phipps at 2013-07-08T19:39:11+00:00 via web To: Public
At #TDC2013 on Wednesday urging folks to help us distribute the web and break free from our corporate overlords, http://ur1.ca/ekmzmSimon Phipps shared this.
2013-07-08T19:37:51+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: Public
Open source means never having to ask permission; come to my talk at #TDC2013 on Wednesday in Sao Paulo: wmk.me/184ubwFJames Bryce Clark, engelnyst likes this.
2013-07-05T12:42:59+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: Public
Oracle switches BerkeleyDB to AGPL http://ur1.ca/eje5uMartín Olivera shared this.
2013-07-03T11:47:13+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: Public
AMD Joins The Document Foundation advisory board to accelerate LibreOffice: http://ur1.ca/eilxwHilton Garcia Fernandes, Genie Alliance, Olivier Berger, James Robertson likes this.
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2013-06-28T15:46:33+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: Public
Do FLOSS projects really need tax breaks, or is the IRS embargo an opportunity for change? http://ur1.ca/eguqt2013-06-25T21:29:25+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: Bradley M. Kuhn, Public
Know anyone starting a FOSS project? Tell them about these OSCON sessions from @bkuhn & I: http://ur1.ca/efwxtBradley M. Kuhn, Marcio B. Jr., Christopher Allan Webber, Sander likes this.
2013-06-15T14:04:48+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: Public
Red Hat to ditch MySQL for MariaDB in RHEL 7: wmk.me/17O6CawChristopher Allan Webber likes this.
♻ @webmink Red Hat to ditch MySQL for MariaDB in RHEL 7: wmk.me/17O6Caw2013-06-10T09:55:25+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: Public
Is the White House anti-troll initiative really an excuse not to address the deeper problem of anti-competitive use? wmk.me/19cDXwjHugo Roy shared by Simon Phipps at 2013-06-01T11:28:09+00:00 via web To: Public
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2013-05-31T12:08:56+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: a(n) person, Public
My update on why Google's VP8 codec license is OK after all http://shar.es/wg0t1 via @infoworldJure Repinc (JLP) likes this.
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2013-05-31T20:26:29+00:00 in Southampton, United Kingdom via web To: Public
@schestowitz You'll be interested in wmk.me/11tsYVX too.Dr. Roy Schestowitz likes this.