Examining Contemporary Cultural Production

Tag Archives: Ubuntu

Ubuntu, Unity, and Identity: How governance and lack of consensus affects cultural production Nov 7, 2011

I’ve been quite interested in the kerfuffle that Ubuntu has taken since the introduction of Unity. To put it mildly, it’s been controversial. Before I start with my observations, I should make a disclosure of why I am so interested in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Canonical, consensus, cultural production, culture, free software movement, Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu | 1 Comment

LibreOffice: time to reconsider Open Source and power? Oct 22, 2011

[Cross-posted from DSC@KCL Blog] Having been a longtime OpenOffice.org user I was a little surprised recently when installing the Ubuntu flavour of Gnu/Linux to find that something called LibreOffice was the default office suite. It looked remarkably similar to OpenOffice.org … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Libre Office, Linux, open source, OpenOffice, Power relations, Ubuntu | 1 Comment