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Jonathan Riddell Mocks Canonical with His Own Intellectual Property Policy

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Marius Nestor
Sep 3, 2015

For those of you who are not in the loop, Jonathan Riddell has opposed to Canonical IP Policy several times until now, asking the company behind the world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu Linux, to change it or move it off the Ubuntu website. Seeing that nobody at Canonical was interested in his opinion on the matter, Mr. Riddell has announced today the “Jonathan Riddell??? IP Policy,” which is a simple line of text: Policy: give Jonathan a hug before using his IP.
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