Stallman and Ubuntu: Sticks and Stones and a Blogosphere Brawl | Linux Today

Stallman and Ubuntu: Sticks and Stones and a Blogosphere Brawl

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 17, 2012

It was only a few weeks ago that the Linux blogosphere’s Punchy Penguin Saloon suffered its latest round of damage thanks to the recent skirmish over the GPL, but now the popular establishment of questionable repute is actually shut down for a week for repairs.

The cause this time?

Yet another blogosphere brawl, needless to say, focusing this time on Ubuntu and its newly installed “surveillance code,” as legendary Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman called it in a recent blog post.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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