Tuesday, March 20, 2012

the Linux Action Show

I used to watch this program called the Linux Action Show. Right up until this week.

Here's what happened:

Last week, host Bryan Lunduke wanted to do something special for the 200th episode of the Linux Action Show (LAS). So he landed a big-name guest to come on the show: Richard Stallman. Bryan thought it would be awesome.

Well it turns out the interview didn't go the way he thought it would. And his 200th episode extravaganza was a dud. Richard and Bryan had completely opposing philosophical viewpoints, and they didn't agree on much. All that is fine. Respectable.

But Bryan was pissed.

As you can imagine, Bryan spent most of the 201st episode ripping on Stallman in his absence. That's fine too, it's his show. Whatever.

But then it turned slanderous. Bryan called Stallman a pedophile, among other things.

When Rush Limbaugh called that girl a prostitute recently, he lost most of his sponsors. LAS only has one sponsor - GoDaddy. I would not be suprised to see GoDaddy pull their funding after this week's episode.

I might watch next week's episode just to see if Bryan issues a formal apology. If not, I won't be listening to him anymore.

After all, the whole point of the show is to learn about linux. If I wanted to learn who was a pedophile I could go to the sex offenders registry.

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  1. Update: a few weeks after this episode aired, Bryan officially left the Linux Action Show.

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