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• Starting out on your own: if you’re thinking of setting up your own company working with technology or the web or open source, what do you need to do to make it successful? Is it possible to compete in the market as a one-man show? Is it just too risky? (1.19) [How can you make money running your own company? Tell us in the LugRadio forums]
• The State Of the Mozilla: Firefox is the poster child for open source software, but are they forgetting their open-source base and not supporting the free desktop? There have been lots of accusations of this — is it actually the truth? Secondly, Mozilla’s rendering engine, Gecko, seems to be losing the war for being an embedded engine to WebKit. Are people heading away from Mozilla’s technology? (20.00) [What do you think of the Mozilla project's approach? Tell us in the LugRadio forums]
• We announce that LugRadio will end at LugRadio Live UK this July, and talk about why the show’s going out on a high. Tell us what you think: send us email or post on the forums (37.15)
• If you could fix any problem in the open-source world what would it be? Thoughts on usability, modularisation, the web, and shared user accounts (44.15)
• Your emails — this week you’re talking about McGyver, gun control, power metal, freedom hatred at the FSF, other Linux podcasts that we think that you should be listening to, and LugRadio Live UK which is in less than a month! (73.40)

• Cairo: it was supposed to revolutionise the graphical look of the Gnome desktop, and as far as we can tell nothing has changed. Where are our beautiful pictures? (3.43) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums]
• Linux on mobile phones: it’s not only the year of the Linux desktop every year, but it’s the year in which Linux really takes over the embedded market. And it never happens. Mobile phones running Linux never appear in the market. Why? (15.52) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums]
• What does “the community” actually mean? Lots of companies are trying to build an open source community around their products, and they don’t succeed because they don’t know how. An extended segment of our views, including Jono speaking on how he thinks community management should work (27.17) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums]
• Your emails and feedback! This week you and we are talking about the LugRadio Syndrome, the freedom slider and a restricted formats wizard, spam, the new world of email security and SPF, abandoning technical books, Guns ‘n’ Roses, media players, and the subject that wouldn’t die, Gobuntu (69.31)

• The cynicism of brands by sysadmins (1.30) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums]
• A Burning Question
• A new model for the music industry - after we discussed different ways that the music industry could work in episode 14, we look at your feedback, talk about what we’ve learned from thinking about this and the nature of recording contracts, and lay out one attempt to find a solution: Severed Fifth (21.42) [Discuss this in the LugRadio forums]
• A Burning Question
• LugRadio Live UK is in less than a month! Prepare yourselves: contact us quickly if you want to grab one of the last few places in the LRL exhibition (60.05)
• A Burning Question
• Your emails: this week we’re talking about Ruby vs Python, honest music listeners, KDE 4 and whether we hate it, OpenSolaris, Linux on mobile phones, mail clients, and Linux Magazine featuring a picture of Aaron Bockover almost naked. Send us your emails! (71.15)

This episode includes the tune Steady B, from Trafic de Blues’ Fin de cavale album, which is licenced as CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5, which means that this episode is also under the same licence (a minor change from our normal licence for episodes).

• Why don’t pundits fuck off? Are we pundits? Why don’t we fuck off? Including free bonus Aq vs. Jono arguing, as if you couldn’t see that coming (4.52) [Discuss in the LugRadio forums]
• twitter - the microblogging site. Why do people care? What’s good about it? Is it Web 2.0 micro-cack or is it the New World Order? Our thoug (27.33) [Discuss in the LugRadio forums]
• The internet makes access to “public” information hugely easy. This is normally a good thing, but there have been some well-publicised cases where this new lack of secrecy has caused some upset. Our thoughts on responsibility and the nature of public but sensitive data (44.10) [Discuss in the LugRadio forums]
• Your emails, for the last time. Thank you all for the deluge of emails we received wishing that we weren’t going to end the show and offering suggestions for how LugRadio could continue — we’d need a whole other show to read them all out, but we read them all and we’re really touched. Also, the nature of contribution to open source, and “best practice management” where good IT is replaced by slavish adherence to existing brands (62.15)
• LugRadio Live is this weekend! The last ever chance to hear the LugRadio team’s particular brand of lies and commentary. In addition, there are thirty speakers, a great exhibition, parties, your 5-minute talks on stage in the Gong-a-Thong (send us your talks!) and lots more. We’ll see you all this weekend! (83.35)

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#1. November 19, 2008

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Arrianna “Oh, what famous friends I’ve got” Huffington, founder of the eponymous Huffington Post, wants you to quit driving your SUV. In particular, her “Detroit Project” wants you to watch this video, which asserts that your gas money goes to buy—among other nasty things—weapons of mass destruction for terrorists.

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