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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 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 Thursday, January 22, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 46. In today's newscast, we explore whether Obama means a change to FOSS, look into a Gaza OLPC giveaway, learn that there's more to a job than cool stuff, consider an open betrayal, look to the clouds for FOSS developers, and wonder what makes a company's worth on that old stock market.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, November 26, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Stories covered in today's newscast include SCO rising from the undead with an appeal, a shiny new Fedora 10, a brighter than bright future for Linux, Wyse guys make it big by being thin, and RedHat stock needs some lovin'.

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