As a kind of pint-sized free software fidei defensor I feel obliged to counter some of the misconceptions that are put about on the subject around the Web. But I find myself in a slightly embarrassing situation here, in that I need to comment on some statements that have appeared in the virtual pages of Computerworld UK.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #131
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #131 for the week February 22nd - February 28th, 2009.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 41
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral by merc and crimperman
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Is Gentoo dying or just becoming old?
I haven't really touched my Gentoo desktop in over a year. I I wanted to stay with Gentoo, I'd have a day or two of compiling a head of me, and then who knows what integration head aches as programs and config files change.
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We are our own worst enemy" Video Interview with Mark Shuttleworth
A really good interview with Mark, made by the colleagues from golem.de. The video interview is split up in two parts, and available in English and German.
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Fedora 10 regains Linux fans
In 2007, Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux distribution, hit an all-time low. Two years later though, Paul Frields, Fedora project leader, declares that there has been "a major up-tick in Fedora involvement over the last 6 months.
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Windows = Antivirus = Pollution?
But, man.... I just couldn't resist the temptation of asking myself "... then how much power is spent on Windows implementing DRM protection mechanisms?". It has been disputed that it be a lot of energy to implement DRM mechanisms. It has been argued that this is not too much of an effort... that DRM in Vista is rougly a couple of LOC on the whole system. I just couldn't care less about it..
Read more »Could the Linux Foundation get too big?
The folks over at the Linux Foundation were happy to announce today that MIPS Technologies has joined the group. Fair enough. But this got me wondering whether it’s possible for the Linux Foundation to get too big. Oracle is already a platinum member, Cisco a gold, Dell a silver. What if Microsoft wanted in? Or Apple?
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Addressing software freedom in cloud computing
Is the freedom torch passing from Richard Stallman to the next generation? Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy opened the Southern California Linux Expo this year with a keynote about software as a service and user freedoms.
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Linux: It’s A Marketing Problem
The big question everyone asks when it comes to Linux is "why doesn't everyone use it?" That is, obviously, what I plan to address today, but first I want to get a few things out of the way.
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Please participate in the FSDaily editing process
This is an urgent call to the FSDaily community to start digging through the upcoming queue and voting on more stories. Without YOU acting as an editor the site doesn't work.
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get counted for better statistics
Some people want better statistics about how many GNU/Linux users there are. Some suggest a kind of phone-home function (horror!). A better approach would be to get deliberately counted. That is what counter.li.org is for.
The exact number will never be known and that is good.
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A call to join UbuntuWeblogs
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How Many Linux Users Are There (Really)?
How many Linux users are there really? It's a darn good question, and there isn't a darn good answer. In one way, we're all Linux users now.
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I Give Up. Windows Is Proof That People Are Too Stupid To Use Computers.
And too stupid or dishonest to report Microsoft Windows as the defective disaster that it is. If it were any other type of product it would have banned from every country in the world long ago.
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