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DebConf10

Speakers
Benjamin Mako Hill
Schedule
Day DebConf Day 5 (2010-08-05)
Room Davis Auditorium
Start time 10:30
Duration 01:00
Info
ID 642
Event type lecture
Track Community Outreach
Language en
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Antifeatures

This talk provides a humorous description of an argument in favor of Debian, and free software more generally, based on what I call "antifeatures:" functionality that users hate and that technology developers will often charge users to not include. From DRM to crippled non-free operating systems to digital cameras, I will show off many of the worst antifeatures and, describe how Debian and free software both makes them impossible and helps users work around them.

This talk provides a humorous description of an argument in favor of Debian, and free software more generally, based on what I call "antifeatures:" functionality that users hate and that technology developers will often charge users to not include. From DRM to crippled non-free operating systems to digital cameras, I will show off many of the worst antifeatures and, describe how Debian and free software both makes them impossible and helps users work around them.

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