WFTL Bytes! for Dec 3, 2008

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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Mandriva falls on hard times, again

Linux Distributions and the Global economic crisis

Virus hits nearly 75% of US military base in Afghanistan

H3v browser. Dillo killer?

Microsoft pays people to recommend them

No OpenSUSE EULA. It's gone, baby!

Quebec retailer ordered to pay for counterfeiting software.