Summary: Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are in Studio L for the first episode of Season Seven of the Ubuntu Podcast! In this week’s show:- We also take a look at what’s been happening in the news: DRM-free Gaming outfit GOG.com are bringing “at least 100” games to Linux this year… Microsoft are going to release the source code for MS-DOS and Microsoft Word… Blender 2.7 is out… You can now *legally* rip your own CDs in the UK… Amazon has announced Fire TV… And there have been endless NSA and/or GCHQ revelations; they’re even spying on Angry Birds…or something… We catch up with what’s been happening in the Ubuntu community: Brendan Eich has been appointed CEO of Mozilla, amid controversy… Brendan has since resigned 14.04 LTS is almost upon us… The Amazon search scope will no longer being enabled by default on Unity 8… Canonical have announced that Ubuntu One will be closing down… We’ll be back next week, when we’ll be getting insights from Mark Shuttleworth and going through your Winter feedback. Please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Join us on IRC in #uupc on Freenode Leave a voicemail via phone: +44 (0) 203 298 1600, sip: podcast@sip.ubuntu-uk.org and skype: ubuntuukpodcast Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc Find our Facebook Fan Page Follow us on Google Plus Leave us some segment ideas on the Etherpad
