Podcast Season 2 Episode 11
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Title: The Dark Wheel
In this episode: There are now 500 Linux games on Steam. Kim Dotcom is looking for a whistleblower. The Turing Test has been conquered, maybe, and the Krita project is looking for funds. We’ve got some finds, no neurons, and an excellent Voice of the Masses.
What’s in the show:
- News:
There are now more than 500 Linux games on Steam, and Civilization 5 has been released. Kim Dotcom is offering £3m to encourage whistleblowers to help prove the case against him is “unlawful or corrupt”. Has the Turing Test been passed? We don’t think so. The ace drawing application, Krita, is kickstarting a campaign to help with development and Docker 1.0 has been released.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Mike:
- The effect of background noise on food perception.
- Hiding files and directories starting with ‘.’ was never intended, according to Rob Pike.
- Ben:
- Xiki; the shell on steroids.
- Andrew:
- Mostly Harmless is sci-fi malarkey set in the universe of Elite and Frontier.
- Graham:
- Mike:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: Free Software vs open source – what do you use?
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If you’d like your brains to be part of our next episode email mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 52:19
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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About The Author
Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
Ah, I was coming to correct the name of the Elite novella but I see you’ve already picked up on it! I think Mike might have been thinking of an old game called Dark Side. If memory serves, it was a 3D-polygon-based first person adventure. I think it was the one where you flew around with a jetpack.
Yes, Graham fixed it after the recording! I’m glad I got half of the name right at least… Or 66.6666% if we count “The” 🙂
Libre does sounds good when you speak french 😀
So we don’t really have this problem, “logiciel libre” means free software as in freedom. Open-source is just open-source.
How about the term: liberty-ware?
Or
liberTware, liberteaware, liberteeware, libertyware, etc…
Why tie yourselves in knots trying to avoid saying “discovery”? Just cann the section “Discovery of the double week” 😉
I’m not sure there is a good word for “free” software.
Perhaps instead we could call Windows software “mehware”.
Loving those captchas at the bottom. I missed out on the Russian alphabet one, but here’s a few of my favourites…
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b119/heiowge/captcha3.png
btw, the captcha for this post is spelled incorrectly… go figure.
Yes, I’ve seen some bad ones too recently. It seems that Google is using them to recognise house numbers now, rather than fix texts in book scanning. Maybe we need to consider an alternative…
Pretty sure that the FSF don’t consider software that enables use of non-free software to be non-free. The ‘free’ status of software is not itself viral in the way the GPL is.