Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #136 for the week March 29th - April 4th, 2009.
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Microsoft Uses Pseudo “Open Source” to Fight Against GNU/Linux and the GPL
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Microsoft deceives on "open source" and uses it to exclude or to poison (with software patents) GNU/Linux
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Nexuiz 2.5 is released!
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One of the most epic free open-source first person shooters has just released it's latest version with over 3000 changes to both the code and the artwork. It's truly impressive how far the game has come and with these new changes, the sky is the limit! Nexuiz is a very community driven game that runs on Windows, OSX and Linux. Check it out!
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Browser standards in an open source world
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Firefox is now ahead of Internet Explorer in Europe.
Matt asks, does that make the Web a duopoly? And is anti-trust enforcement now the only way open source can compete with Microsoft?
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Cloudera CEO: Hadoop, Open Source and the Cloud (Video)
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But here’s the zillion-dollar question: Is Cloudera really the next hot open source start-up, perhaps a nascent XenSource (bought by Citrix for a gorgeous $500 million)? Or will it be just another fledgling rushing into the crowded cloud computing sector?
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Starting a new business, 5 reasons to avoid Microsoft now!
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If you are a new online business owner, one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to not become a whore to Microsoft, their high cost, and their ludicrous licensing system.
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Do Open Source Companies *Really* Support Free Software?
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skAsterisk, a PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit, is one of open source best-kept secrets. As with many open source projects, there is a company that has been set up to provide support, Digium.
Here's its latest press release:
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Sharing, Contributing... and Caching
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This story is part bug hunt, part open-source love-story. The bug was a particularly gnarly, beautiful little bug and I'm going to try to convey some of that to you.
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An interesting discussion in Linux Blogs
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Thanks to Mike Dailey a very interesting discussion has been sparked on Linux and open source in the enterprise. For anybody wanting to follow the entire discussion here's how it goes.
It started here:
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Linus Torvalds – One of the Greatest Men Alive?
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Being 39 years of age, Linus Torvalds was born on the 28th of December 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. Though the fact that he graduated the Helsinki University with a Master's degree in computer science may not seem very interesting, you should know that the University's decision to hold a UNIX course during his years there was one of the things that led to the creation of Linux.
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ESR: GPL No Longer Needed
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Eric S. Raymond is one of the three big figures in open source, together with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. During a talk for the Long Island Linux User Group, he made some interesting statements about the GPL, namely that the GPL is no longer needed due to the way the open source movement works.
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Why Recession Is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open-Source Strategy
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Budget limitations and continued improvement in software and associated services are making open-source software alternatives such as MySQL, SUSE Linux, OpenOffice.org and plenty of others look mighty good to IT managers and CFOs.
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Converting Subversion repositories to Git
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There are a number of version control systems available. Originally there was RCS, which was suitable for individuals, but not really suitable for groups of people. It evolved into CVS, which worked pretty well for years, and then Subversion came along, making a better CVS than CVS itself.
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Take that to the Open Source bank
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Think open source and you might think many things, but I doubt very much that banking will be towards the top of the list or even on the radar for that matter.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #134
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #134 for the week March 15th - March 21st, 2009.
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