TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 1: Brandon from Fedora	TechBytes Episode 1: Apple, Microsoft, Bundling, and Fedora 14 (With Special Guest Brandon Lozza)	1/11/2010
Episode 2: No guests	TechBytes Episode 2: Ubuntu's One Way, Silverlight Goes Dark, and GNU Octave Discovered	7/11/2010
Episode 3: No guests	TechBytes Episode 3: Games, Wayland, Xfce, Restrictive Application Stores, and Office Suites	8/11/2010
Episode 4: No guests	TechBytes Episode 4: Fedora 14 Impressions, MPAA et al. Payday, and Emma Lee's Magic	9/11/2010
Episode 5: No guests	TechBytes Episode 5: Windows Loses to Linux in Phones, GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share Estimations, and Much More	12/11/2010
Episode 6: No guests	TechBytes Episode 6: KINect a Cheapo Gadget, Sharing Perceptually Criminalised, Fedora and Fusion 14 in Review	13/11/2010
Episode 7: No guests	TechBytes Episode 7: FUD From The Economist, New Releases, and Linux Eureka Moment at Netflix	14/11/2010
Episode 8: Gordon Sinclair on Linux Mint	TechBytes Episode 8: Linux Mint Special With Gordon Sinclair (ThistleWeb)	15/11/2010
Episode 9: Gordon Sinclair returns	TechBytes Episode 9: The Potentially Permanent Return of ThistleWeb	17/11/2010
Episode 10: Special show format	TechBytes Episode 10: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux	19/11/2010
Episode 11: Part 2 of special show	TechBytes Episode 11: Microsoft FUD and Dirty Tactics Against GNU/Linux - Part II	21/11/2010
Episode 12: Novell special	TechBytes Episode 12: Novell Sold for Microsoft Gains	23/11/2010
Episode 13: No guests	TechBytes Episode 13: Copyfight, Wikileaks, and Other Chat	28/11/2010
Episode 14: Patents special	TechBytes Episode 14: Software Patents in Phones, Android, and in General	29/11/2010
Episode 15: No guests	TechBytes Episode 15: Google Chrome OS, Windows Refund, and Side Topics Like Wikileaks	30/11/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 16: No guests	TechBytes Episode 16: Bribes for Reviews, GNU/Linux News, and Wikileaks Opinions	3/12/2010
Episode 17: No guests	TechBytes Episode 17: Chrome OS Imminent, Wikileaks Spreads to Mirrors, 'Open' Microsoft	5/12/2010
Episode 18: No guests	TechBytes Episode 18: Chrome OS, Sharing, Freedom, and Wikileaks	11/12/2010
Episode 19: No guests	TechBytes Episode 19: GNU/Linux Market Share on Desktop at 4%, Microsoft Declining, and ChromeOS is Coming	16/12/2010
Episode 20: No guests	TechBytes Episode 20: GNU/Linux Gamers Pay More for Games, Other Discussions	18/12/2010
Episode 21: No guests	TechBytes Episode 21: Copyright Abuses, Agitators and Trolls, Starting a New Site	20/12/2010
Episode 22: No special guests	TechBytes Episode 22: Freedom Debate and Picks of the Year	27/12/2010

Show overview	Show title	Date recorded
Episode 23: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 23: Failuresfest and 2011 Predictions	2/1/2011
Episode 24: Tim, Gordon, and Roy	TechBytes Episode 24: Android, Microsoft's President Departure, and Privacy	10/1/2011

OpenAI Traffic Collapsing (for 3 Months in a Row About 20% Down Per Month), Bankruptcy Likely Soon: How much time has OpenAI got before its massive debt is too much for anyone to shoulder or bear?
IBM + NDA = Laid Off Workers Saying "Thank You" for the Layoffs: The important thing is, for now, more people become aware of it
IBMers Impacted by the Mass Layoffs (Which IBM Tries Not to Talk About) Are Livid as the CEO "Spends 11 Billion He Doesn’t Have": IBM dooms both its brand and its future
Consumerism and Christmas: Many of us yearn for prior decades when December was about family, not shopping
'Linux' Foundation 'Research' (Marketing) Has New Report About "Open Source" and It Was Made Using Proprietary Software and Not Linux: what 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' is
Links 08/12/2025: Cambodia-Thailand Air Raids, Japan/China Military Incident: Links for the day
The "Cut 10,000 Jobs" Clickbait and Microsoft Sites Now Speculating That Microsoft CEO Has Just Signalled More Mass Layoffs: by our tally, Microsoft had more than 30,000 layoffs this year, not 15,000
Canonical Outsourcing Ubuntu to Microsoft Results in Broken Ubuntu, Just as One Can Expect: State actors and Microsoft prefer it that way
Mocking a Software Developer for Using the Terminal or Programs Like Emacs: A decade ago someone asked RMS (Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement) to send a screenshot
Monsieur Claude Sahl, Part of the Administrative Council of the EPO (Which Fails to Administer the EPO), Has Been There For Over 30 Years: They have basically built themselves a very expensive palace in Bavaria (Germany), in which to grant European monopolies to billionaires and companies that aren't even European
Open Letter to the Administrative Council of the EPO Calls For Action as Salaries Decrease (Just Like Patent Validity): Based on what I heard and spoke about with journalists, they accept there is a substance abuse problem at the EPO's management
Links 08/12/2025: "Leaving Intel" (Exodus Continues) and Ways "to Civilize Digital Life": Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/12/2025: Earbuds and Offline 'Smartphones': Links for the day
Books About Bubbles: calling things "AI" and "AIs" can mislead the reader
Links 08/12/2025: Slop Failing and Windows Users Won't 'Upgrade' Due to Slop: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 07, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, December 07, 2025
IBM's Mass Layoffs Will Continue Until Morale Improves: From recent hours
Links 07/12/2025: Political Catchup, Conflicts, Environmentalism: Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/12/2025: "Lazy Saturday" and Kubernetes With FreeBSD: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 06, 2025: IRC logs for Saturday, December 06, 2025
Links 06/12/2025: Science, Hardware, and Slop Fatigue: Links for the day
Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO, Here Are All the E-mail Addresses: We'll say more about this next week
Hopefully Slopwatch is Dying: Some of the offending sites we used to keep abreast of descended into a lull
Links 06/12/2025: Panic in the Slop (Chatbots) Industry and Perplexity Sued by New York Times for Plagiarising Articles Under Guise of "AI": Links for the day
European Patent Office Issues: Points to Raise or Factoids to Share With Delegates of the EPO's Administrative Council: use their native language/tongue
European Readers, Get Ready to Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council: Perfect timing might be Sunday or Monday
Why We'll Continue Our IBM/Red Hat Focus in 2026: There will be many more departures not only later this month but also next month
Links 06/12/2025: Slop's "Jeopardy Phenomenon" and RAM Shortage: Links for the day
Gemini Links 06/12/2025: Memories, "Sweetness and Burn", and Hope: Links for the day
Every Site That Uses Clownflare Had Worse Downtime/Uptime Record Than Ours: And the same goes for Azure and AWS
Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Work for Freedom, It Works to Secure the Massive Salary of Its President And Executive Director: We must be very effective then
Why (and When) I Become an 'Activist' Against Corruption and Abuse: The dictatorship bans criticism of the dictatorship. That's when there's a deadlock.
EPO Call for Action: Get Ready to Contact Your National Delegates, We Need to Remind Them That They Represent People: Today or tomorrow we'll publish contact details for national representatives in nearly 50 European nations
Links 05/12/2025: More Restrictions on Social Control Media and Slop, "Hype Can Turn to Backlash": Links for the day
Like With Red Hat and Other IBM Acquisitions, the RAs (Layoffs) Seem to Already Extend to HashiCorp: Of course it is possible that HashiCorp staff just got PIP'ed or saw the writings on the wall and left [...] IBM is just a dying giant
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 05, 2025: IRC logs for Friday, December 05, 2025

TechBytes Episode 25: Mono, Ubuntu, Android, and More

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