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268: Free As In Freedom Not Free As In Beer

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TuxDigital Network
Published
Mon 07 Mar 2022
Episode Link
https://destinationlinux.net/268

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


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