This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, July 29, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 55. On today's newscast . . . an unholy alliance (or a really good one, depending on who you ask), Yahoo turns B-movie monster, Alfresco cosies up to Ubuntu, TUX is in your pocket, and "What are you? Color-blind!"

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It's Official. Microsoft-Yahoo Ink A 10-Year Search Pact

Night Of The Living Yahoo

Alfresco Does Ubuntu

TUX: He's Everywhere You Ought To Be

Ubuntu's Brown! Not Orange!

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, April 1, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 54. On today's newscast . . . patents get weirder with help from Apple and IBM, Conficker thumbs his nose at Windows users, Twitter gets owned, Linux and Mac force a Windows rethink, and lobsters and fish sing a Linux song. Oh, and there's a bonus link below for OpenOffice.org pranks. It is April 1st after all.

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Google announces GMail Autopilot

Microsoft can't stand the competition: rethinks Windows 7

U.S. Patent Office uncovers Apple's secret plan

300,000 domains blocked to fight Conficker worm

IBM registers offshoring patent

The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir - Linux and poor taste, together at last

Identi.ca buys Twitter

OpenOffice.org pranks, for anytime

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, March 5, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 53. On today's newscast . . . Helios goes mano-a-mano for being a Linux guy, car companies looking to Linux, netbooks again (it's been a while), bad support, Microsoft spreading FUD, FOSS people spreading FUD, and a Scale wrap-up.

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Tempers flare as recession creeps into tech industry

Car makers collaborate on Linux for cars

Are retailers highjacking Linux for their own personal gains?

Open Source leaders speak out on Tom Tom case

Is Microsoft targeting Linux through Tom Tom? Oh please . . .

Scale 7x - One week later

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 Thursday, February 12, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 51. On today's newscast . . . crappy economy gives rise to malicious insiders, healthy open source coders, a non-lethal snake bite, patent prior art, and a new Linux distribution that really is communist.

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Malicious insider attacks to rise

Open source projects to provide corporate benefits

Snakebite network readies for open source projects

Snakebite Website

India fights patents with huge prior art database

Cuba launches its own Linux variant

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, February 11, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 50. On today's newscast . . . we with Linux Journal a musical happy birthday, look at open source financial myths, bundle Firefox with some bad ideas, examine Microsoft's open source software, and try to find that same Microsoft a spy.

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COSSFEST 2009

Scale 7x

Linux Journal turns the big 15-0

RedHat CEO kills open source financial myth

Firefox exec doesn't want to be bundled with Windows

Christian Einfeldt on Microsoft's job posting for director of open source stragegy

Inside Microsoft's Open Source repository

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, December 3, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. In today's news, not only is Linux apparently broken, so is the open source business model. Mandriva falls on hard times again, viruses cripple US military base, Microsoft pays for recommending them, OpenSUSE throws out the EULA, the costs of piracy, and a new browser war.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, December 1, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include a list of what's wrong with Linux (and how to fix it), a kinder, gentler, more open, Microsoft, a kinder, more open, Atheros, Linux on the iPhone, Intel didn't know netbooks would go like this, and more.

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