Linus Torvalds

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

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Tuesday, January 27, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 48. Today's Bytescast is done in front of a live studio audience (I recorded it while streaming live on Ustream.tv, so people were watching the recording). Our stories include the release of KDE 4.2 just as Linus Torvalds jumps ship and Aaron Seigo throws him a life preserver. The moment is now for open source while the EU ponders making Microsoft love Firefox. Google planning the demise of your PC and just what is open source and where is it going?

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