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1. Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2019 21:54:53 EDT Matthew Davidson

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   • Ruben
   @tregeagle As you probably know, Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Conservancy, GNOME, etc.) agonised over her proprietary defibrillator. In a recent #FaiF episode, she recounted how she delayed getting the (pre-WiFi, thankfully) implant for quite a while, and would be confronted by friends in tears who simply could not understand her problem with the device that was expected t…
   • Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2019 22:09:04 EDT Matthew Davidson

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     Also greatly enjoyed Karen and Bradley's discussion of the golden age of software freedom (and subsequent dark age). Remember it well. At the time I was okay with this new #Ubuntu thing (whatever happened to that?) bundling some non-free drivers in the base install media because by then we'd essentially won, hadn't we? A handful of hard-line vendors still to be swept up, but …
   • Matthew Davidson (mjd)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2019 07:31:01 EDT Matthew Davidson

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     • Ruben
     I walk to and from work, but I still don't have enough time for podcasts. I've been neglecting Melvyn Bragg terribly. I do hope he hasn't taken it personally.