IF Shayne is now "Ubuntu LInux" and Fringe "web guru", then why is the Fringe website still giving me a 406 error when I use Lynx? One of the foundations of the internet was "getting the word out" and that doesn't work if you send out Microsoft .docs or make a website that discrminates against browsers. I've seen horrible websites, that require flash for entry. But the Fringe has long ignored the doctrine, the year when they told me to go away until I got a different browser (that was before I could run a graphic browser at home). Meanwhile, other than the photos, I am graphic free; I once looked at my site on Allan's smartphone, and because it was text only, it worked fine. But instead of simplifying, too many websites are ended up with dual versions, to deal with "mobile users". Of course, the 406 error is not coming from the Fringe's website, it's from the server software, that has to come from Microsoft. I guess the Fringe is still at ecohosting..
It's worth noting that Richard Stallman himself has spoken out against Ubuntu here, Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?. There are other issues besides spyware, Cannonical is trying to erase any connection with GNU/Linux, and seems to try to make their version very mainstream. It's not like LInux is hard, I would ahve run Unix in 1981 if I had the hardware and I could get the software. When I finally had the hardware to run Linux, I tried Debian (the most "free" distribution, and for some odd reason, it's the basis of Ubuntu) but immediately gave it up because it's notion of "free" meant it left out the mailreader I was used to. So I found a copy of Linux Slackware for Dummies at Indigo, a torn cover gave it a reasonable price, and installed from the CDs in that book. (That was when I finally could use a graphic browser at home, early June, 2001.) What's to fuss over? If Slackware's easy, then all Linux is easy. Not that I use the system much, it's just easier to use Linux than learn Windows. I could live with a very limited system, softare and hardware, but since I can run Linux, I might as well. It's like getting top grades in high school, without any effort or interest.
One year I brought a penguin, the mascot of Linux to the Beer Tent, but someone didn't like it, I never saw it again. I even had a "Linux Inside" button on it, though I'd just taken a button and put a linux sticker on it. That was the period when the other fest was misinterpreting Linux for it's own purposes.