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Episode 1: Corporate control, org-mode, mobile phones and PDAs


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In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.

Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!

Links to some of the things discussed in the show

  • Linux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in general
  • The Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"
  • Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing Couchsurfing
  • On Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open Source
  • How I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'
  • Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movement
  • F-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platform
  • Replicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phones
  • LineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devices
  • LibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soon
  • OpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took off
  • Org Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through Emacs
  • Orgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for Android
  • The Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDA
  • Time Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managament
  • Rudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)
  • The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital Assistant
  • Sharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDA
  • Emacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs
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