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Oh Loh! SourceForge Buys Former Microsoft Employees
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OSCA: Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software
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"A brand new initiative endorsed by Red Hat and Synnex (a business process services company) is called the Open Source Channel Alliance.
Read more »Job opening on the FSF campaigns team
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"The FSF is hiring a campaigns manager to be part of the team that runs DefectiveByDesign and PlayOgg, helps coordinate the GNU Project, and generates new campaign ideas. This is an opportunity to take a leadership role in the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GPL, and fights for software freedom..."
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Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond
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Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now left the fold and written a book about why the Redmond way will fail. Oh yeah, Curtis is not afraid to speak his mind as a Linux guru, either.
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Gartner: Use open source to cut 35% from e-commerce costs
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E-commerce teams within IT departments must do more with less, so they need to maximize their resources through shrewd and clever management, according to Gartner.
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How to be a free software business trainer
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The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa and the Germany-based InWent project have launched a programme to develop trainers in East and Southern Africa capable of teaching others to build free software-based businesses.
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Linux's position in cloud computing efforts
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Clouds are such big Linux news these days that, in the physical world, it would be raining by now. Or at least heavily overcast.
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Canonical Hires Noveller, Job Probably Won’t Include Mono
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From Novell's SUSE to Ubuntu and what it may all mean to Mono
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Debian 5 Lenny and Ubuntu 9.04
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"Ubuntu 9.04, which was released at the end of April, and Debian 5 (Lenny), have just been added to the list of new GNU/Linux distributions that you can use when you create your Gandi server..."
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Free As In Kosova: GNU World Domination for the Wrong Reasons
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"...Kosovo institutions and especially the Ministry of Education must encourage Free Software in order to create the technical base that will attract global companies [...] Although copyright laws are not being enforced right now, this is likely to happen soon as Kosovo moves towards joining international trade organizations..."
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A Resource List for Advertising your Free(as in freedom) Games
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Advertisement Master List for Free Games collects information on where you can promote video games for free and to indicate how suitable your game must be to get good reception. This list is made for people who write free(as in freedom games) so proprietary game developer will find it less suitable or unsuitable.
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PostgreSQL.org Website Design Contest
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"...The current design of postgresql.org needs a refresh! We're looking for talented designers interested in re-developing our look [...] To help find a great designer, we've decided to put $2000 on the table..."
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Open source comes to the cloud
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Open source specialist SugarCRM has developed the Sugar Open Cloud, an on-demand open platform. "Parts of open source and parts of the cloud come together," explained Martin Schneider.
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The setting Sun: responses to the acquisition
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Oracle's acquisition of Sun raised a lot of questions about the future of Sun's core technologies. Oracle says that it is committed to Solaris and Java, but some open source advocates are concerned about the implications for OpenOffice.org and MySQL. Ars looks at how Oracle and members of the open source software community have responded to the acquisition.
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Red Hat plans more hiring after adding 600 employees
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Despite the worst recession in decades, Linux giant Red Hat added 600 employees to its rolls during the 12 months that ended Feb. 28, and the Raleigh company anticipates more hiring going forward.
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