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We are back! This week, Dan & Fab talk about what duck porn has to do with Microsoft, that Fedora got p0wned and what else happened in the Open Source world in the last two weeks. Dan interviews Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group.

Introduction & Errata (00:57)

• We are back and apologise for skipping a week, Fab moved house and is currently without an Internet connection
• Aaron B. wrote to tell us that he doesn’t hate Fab after all, which is nice
• Stephen Fry has released a video to congratulate GNU which turned 25 last week — also check out episode 7 of the Freedom Socks podcast for an interview with Matt Lee of the FSF who arranged this
• Our podcast will be one year old this Friday (September 12)
• Dan has been LUGing with both the Liverpool and Chester LUGs
• We mention the Linux Cranks and LOST podcasts

Releases & News (08:54)

• MEPIS antiX 7.5
• Zenwalk Linux 5.2 “GNOME”
• Beyond Linux From Scratch 6.3
• Ubuntu Christian Edition 4.0
• gNewSense 2.1
• Kiwi Linux 8.08
• PC/OS 2008v2
• MidnightBSD 0.2.1
• Scientific Linux 4.7
• BOSS GNU/Linux 3.0
• Turbolinux 12
  
  
• Hans Reiser gets convicted 15-to-life
• Google releases their own browser and inadvertendly starts an EULA controversy
• Fedora and Red Hat servers got hacked
• The SFLC releases a “how not to get sued over the GPL” guide
• Cisco buys PostPath, is intend on competing with Exchange
• Intel buys mobile Linux vendor OpenedHand from the UK
• Red hat buys Qumranet, makers of KVM

Microwatch

• Is Microsoft profiting from Linux?
• Redmond again breaks promises with Internet Explorer 8 — who would’ve guessed?
• Nude Female Midgets and Duck Porn — Microsoft Adcenter FAIL

Interview (38:32)

Dan interviews Becky Hogge from the Open Rights Group about what their organisation is about, how it was founded, what they campaign for and how you can help. Dan and Becky also talk about general topics like civil rights and privacy in the digital age, both in the UK and internationally and we learn how both Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow are involved with the group. If you’re from the UK and this interview got you interested in the ORG’s work, please visit their site and consider becoming a supporter. Also, if you want to be part of the Neil Gaiman event in London, check this out.

Listener Feedback (70:15)

• Joe Pentland tells us more about the Firefox vs. Iceweasel controversy and wants us the check out the band Futuristic Sex Robotz
• Jonathan Groll from South Africa wants to know how we record the podcast, which we discussed in Episode 19 and asks us if we get sick of distro hopping
• Michael Spannbauer from Regensburg bought a 20 Euro Mustek MC-1503F media player and tells us that it plays Ogg
• Selcal suggests Yuengling for Fab to try as Beer of the Week and rants about the iPhone a bit — he also owns a Zune and is looking for help getting it to work in Linux
• Peter Cannon sends us another very funny email about Dan’s Free Music challenge to him — Dan thinks he wants to move the goal posts
• Frank Bell feels the need to rant some more about Best Buy (you can find his own horror story on his blog), he also loves Slackware und dislikes Gnome and sudo
• Cam DeCoster asks us what we think about using the EeeBox as a dedicated media centre PC, Cam also tells us that his company finally blocked our Ogg feed

Wrapping it up, we mention the new Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook and it’s cool new interface for Ubuntu. Dell also started selling their Vostro line for emerging markets bundled with Ubuntu. Speaking of netbooks, Dan recently reviewed the Elonex Webbook and will talk about that some more next week on the show.

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The theme music for this podcast is a song called “Sudo Modprobe”, it was written by Fab and produced and performed by Dan and Fab. The artwork for the album cover and the site including the Outlaw Tux was created by Fab. All material in this podcast is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.