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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, February 23, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 52. On today's newscast . . . we ask why government isn't saving big with FOSS, what constitutes good personal marketing, who's buddying up to Microsoft, why are things so tough over at OpenSUSE, and who put the ram in the ramma lamma ding dong?

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Government saves billions using Open Source software. Really?

Linux: It's a marketing problem

Who's buddying up closer with Microsoft? Novell or RedHat?

Troubling Times for OpenSUSE

Novell promotes ASP.NET, demotes OpenSUSE

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, February 2, 2009 (Groundhog Day), with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 49. On today's newscast . . . nature's own weather forecaster tells it like it might be and bites it. Did Linus jump ship too soon? Dept of defense thinks FOSS is cool. Mototala axes Windows, sort of. Going RMS on semantics.

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Did Linus Torvalds jump ship too soon?

Six more weeks of winter says Wiarton Willy

Charles G. Hogg bites Michael Bloomberg

DOD launches its own version of SourceForge

Motorola demotes Windows Mobile; fires staff

Mom, Open Source, and Apple Pie

Open Source Politics and the Big Smoke