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I just read Kevin Carmony's piece about the GPL v3 and unintended consequences. I do not have a opinion about his ideas but I did have this thought: Is Linspire planning a patent deal with Microsoft?

In the related thread on the Freespire Forums there is an interesting post.

Today I left Userful, as I found their current management issues were not worth my time. What will I be doing over the next several months? I don't really know...

The wonderful people at O'Reilly and I have cooked up a little scheme to get one of you lovely people a pass to Ubuntu Live, for absolutely no cost. The catch? You have to write me a story about why you want to go. And why would you want to go?

Well, for starters, you can listen to Jono talk about herding cats and by cats, he means us, or how a small law office uses to Ubuntu from end to end, or how Asterisk loves Ubuntu. Of course, there is lots more on the schedule, not to mention the drinking BOFs every evening...

So drop me an email and tell me all about why you want to go to Ubuntu Live.

This is always the question around this time. While nothing has been set in stone, you can see the specs that are being considered on the Launchpad page for Gutsy.

I should note that this doesn't mean that everything on that page is going to be done. Any specs marked deferred mean that the implementer couldn't get them done for Feature Freeze, in this case August 16th, as can be seen on the Gutsy Release Schedule. You can look at the equivalent Feisty, Edgy or Dapper pages to get an idea of what these pages look like after release.

And, Steve, the page you are looking for is the Displayconfig-gtk spec

Chani on Planet KDE has pointed out the that the Standards Council of Canada needs some education, as it is seeking to have the OpenXML spec defined as an ISO standard. So, Canadians, step up and leave a comment about how they have never even considered OpenDocument.

Seems my older brother has finally hit planet...

After some 30 hours of travel, I am back. Seems that cancelling one portion of my travel (Madrid to Sevilla) would have meant cancelling it all, so I ended up catching the last AVE train back to Sevilla, arriving at 00:45 and then hanging out in the airport for 6 hours until my 07:25 flight back to Madrid. This was made all more fun by the fact that the Sevilla airport closes between 02:00 and 05:00...

All in all, the trip home was a great deal less painful than the trip out to Spain. The Spanish security was altogether more sensible and friendly, the Spanish customs officer actually thanked me for coming to Spain and Spanish airports are generally clean and fairly fast. In fact, Spanish transport generally rocks. Trains are clean and on time; the AVE will actually refund a portion of your money if you are only 5 minutes late. If only North American transport worked as well...

As I write this I am in a hostel in Madrid, enjoying the fine Spanish weather and culture for a few more days after UDS, which, incidentally, rocked. Thanks to all the Canonical folks for putting it on and Jono especially for saying yes (no, not in that way).

However, please don't expect any speedy return on emails until the 21st or so of May.

The Ubuntu community does a great deal of amazing thing everyday. However, the Marketing team really only hears about a tiny amount of this. We would love to hear more, so there is a new way to do just that: Drop us an email at ubuntu-marketing-submissions@lists.ubuntu.com and tell us the great stuff you are doing!

Jono, let's just say I had a wild night with Gillian Anderson