Ubuntu mentioned in interview with Jon Johansen

[Erik Bågfors]

Well... Swedish is fairly close to Norwegian, so I'll give it a go.

"When Jon Lech Johansen is going after the"media gigants, he starts up
windows. Read Computerworld intervju with the worlds most famous
hacker"

The article starts with that he and his family is involved in
developing some kind of new sms technology. It goes on about him not
being able to say anything about it. But it is to be released pretty
soon.

Then it talks about why he wants to break DRM systems (I think we all
know why) and that he himself buys music on itunes but with his own
linux client.

then it's alittle about patents why software patents are bad...

Then, Ubuntu It goes something like this

"
- Some people thinks that the open source environment is too
fragmented, and this is a advantage for a kompetitor such as microsoft

-- It's both good and bad, I think what companies like Novell and Red
Hat are doing for the linux distribution (comment: distribution as in
distribute linux around the world, not a distribution) is good. It's
about making the technology available for as many people as possible.

- What are you using yourself

-- Ubuntu!

- What?

-- It's a new, south-african, debian-based distrubution developed
under supervision of Mark Shuttleworth

Spacemen

The South african Shuttleworth spent around 20 miljon dollars to go,
as a tourist in space at a russian spaceship. He became rich on
"Thawte", et internet-security company he sold to Verisign in 1999.

After that he has established himself as a venture-capitalist (is that
an english word?).  Ubuntu, that was released last year, is already
popular, says Johansen and he's very enthusiastic.

-- I have installed Ubuntu on my new laptop, and it's completly
awsome. Everything works without problems right after installation,
and all the drivers are in place.

Needs windows

But Linux doesn't do it for everything Johansen needs it for.

-- I Use windows also, the tool I need to reverse-engineer, is only for windows

- Isn't that somewhat ironic

-- I guess it is."



Then it goes on about reverse engineering and that Jon is happy to pay
for music and stuff..


Sorry that the english might be strange, but I don't know norwegian
that good so the translation from one none-native language to another
can be hard :)

But you get the idea of what the article is about anyway.

Cheers,
Erik


On 5/22/05, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> G'morning freedom lovers,
> 
> Got a fair idea what's going on here ("Which distribution do you use?"
> "Ubuntu!"), despite complete ignorance of the Norwegian language. Anyone
> want to translate? :)
> 
>   http://www.computerworld.no/index.cfm/fuseaction/artikkel/id/F9C1D21F-AD62-FD0A-570898536BA28514
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff
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