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Linux Remains a Recession Proof Niche

http://reallylinux.com

In this article, Andrea explores some of the most recent Linux job postings and determines that Linux is a very good niche to be in during these economically strange times.

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Recession's latest victim: U.S. innovation

http://money.cnn.com

U.S. innovation slowed this year for the first time in 13 years as the recession cut into budgets, and costs to protect inventions rose. The system is broken.. Pushing patents through the system is easier said than done: The decline in filings this year has brought to light a number of problems with the antiquated American patent system.

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Red Hat enjoys fruit of recession

http://www.channelregister.co.uk

Red Hat is still looking to expand beyond its traditional market of tech-savvy companies into a more mainstream world nearly a year after the open source vendor first declared its intentions to woo conservative customers away from rivals Microsoft and Oracle.

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The Score: Red Hat Revenue Up 18%, Microsoft Revenue Down, Apple Fires 1,600 Full-time Employees

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GNU/Linux leader remains the only one standing (and thriving) despite a tough economy

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The Cost Savings of FOSS: Business Success for the Wrong Reason

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Obviously, no company is going to refuse the chance to save money. However, the focus on this side-benefit is threatening to overshadow the main advantages of FOSS -- and that's true regardless of whether you take an open source or a free software perspective.

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Is Linux Bad for the Economy?

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I read a Newsweek* article titled, Stop Saving Now!, a cover story that actually encourages you, the consumer, to stop being so darn frugal and spend some money.

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Microsoft Skull-f**ks Iceland’s Economy, Contracts Syphilis

http://smari.yaxic.org

Microsoft has made a business out of selling licenses to run software that can be copied at no marginal cost, this everybody knows. Essentially, they manufacture software, but their product isn’t computer code, it’s legal code. Contracts.

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Open source apps are no small free beer

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Richard Stallman once wrote that the point about free software is it is "free as in freedom, not free as in beer", meaning that people should be at liberty to do as they pleased with software, rather than subscribe to its restrictive licences.

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Created by the_borg10001101 13 years 10 weeks ago – Made popular 13 years 10 weeks ago
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Linux can save your business.

http://it.toolbox.com

In these hard times I am seeing businesses dropping like flies. Even the big boys are talking about and acting on the laying off of thousands of workers. As always in these sort of situations what is a disaster for some is an opportunity for others. What is one mans pain is another's pleasure so to speak

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Will the economic downturn mean a free software upturn?

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

So here we are, entering another year- and no doubt at some point during this year, more than one person will declare it the "year of the Linux desktop". Of course it won't happen and those who consider themselves free software opponents will soon let us know. Some things will never change. That said, is there any reason to suspect it might be different this year?

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