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This article (via lxer) talks about Microsoft latest FUD and how they never stop treating Linux users as idiots. Probably not while it treats its own users in the same fashion. Just take a look at the latest FUD to arrive from the Microsoft chiefs of staff - Kevin Turner, COO, claims that Vista [...]

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GPL version 3 released

by Vivek Gite

After long debate, GPL v3 is here. Richard Stallman’s Free Software Foundation launched GPL Version 3 on Friday, 29, 2007 with an eye toward restricting patent actions against free software
One of the early adopters of GPL 3 will be the Samba Server project. Samba is extremely useful for sharing files and printers between UNIX computers [...]

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There is a nice small article about using MySQL on Windows 2003 or Vista desktop system.
I honestly have to say that, now after years of using MySQL on Windows, I find it to be my favorite database/platform combination of choice. In my opinion, it’s easier to use than Microsoft’s own database on their platform, the [...]

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This is really good news. Both Redhat and Canonical (Ubuntu’s parent company) has rejected nasty Microsoft patent deals.
Following Linux distributions and companies made a patent deals with Microsoft:
[a] Novell Suse Linux
[b] Linspire Linux desktop
[c] Xandros Linux desktop
[d] LG Electronics
The drama started last November, when Microsoft inked a deal with Novell to [...]

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