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With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods.
News
Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS
Slackware dev has financial problems
elementary OS receives large donation
Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects
What’s next, extensions?
Entroware
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Wes mason
Wes Mason joins Joe to discuss the recent malware incidents with npm, and the wider topic of traditional software repositories vs user-submitted ones like the Snap Store.
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