Episode 268
Free As In Freedom Not Free As In Beer
March 7th, 2022
1 hr 1 min 41 secs
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About this Episode
This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re going to be discussing the phrase of "Free As In Freedom, Not Free As In Beer". Is it okay for developers to charge for their work? Then we’re going to take a look at a new partnership Canonical has with Vodafone. Plus we've also got our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of this and so much more this week on Destination Linux. So whether you're brand new to Linux and open source or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast for you.
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Chapters:
00:00 = Welcome to DL 268
00:47 = Community Feedback: Firefox Issues discussed on DL 247
09:14 = Firefox Container Tabs!
09:47 = How to send in feedback to the show
10:08 = Ryan throws back to last week for Michael's editing notes
11:02 = DigitalOcean Cloud Services ( https://do.co/tux2022 )
12:58 = Discussion: Funding & Contributing to Open Source Software
13:07 = "Free as in Freedom Not Free as in Beer"
13:54 = Should developers charge for their Open Source software?
15:50 = Contributing doesn't have to include money
18:01 = Misconception: "It's not Open Source if they charge you for it"
20:03 = elementary OS "Pay What You Want" Approach
22:56 = Is it nagware to repeatedly ask you to buy it or is it just helpful reminders?
24:59 = Adding value while respecting the goal of closing the Digital Divide
25:54 = Michael's tangent about not liking the term "Free Software"
28:56 = Term Suggestions such as Libre Software
31:14 = Quotes from the GNU project about this subject
32:00 = DL Patrons help us promote the DLNStore.com
32:16 = Discussion Summary
34:12 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln )
35:48 = News: Canonical's Anbox Cloud Phone and Vodafone
42:51 = Waydroid project
44:06 = What if these Anbox Cloud instances got breached?
45:58 = The Technologist's Paradox
46:38 = Gaming: Apex Legends on Linux via Steam Proton
52:05 = Software Spotlight: File Shredder
55:22 = Tip of the Week: Make it easier to manage your wireless printers
58:43 = Linux Events: Virtual and In-Person
59:26 = Outro