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Open Source: Thinking Outside the Glass Box - June 18, 2008

tecosystems: "If I were to ask you what the world's most largest open source firm was, how would you answer Red Hat, perhaps, because they're the first pure play to get within hailing distance of a billion in revenue MySQL, because they were valued at a billion IBM Sun..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-18-002-26-OP-BZ

Wine 1.0 Released - June 18, 2008

Wine Reviews: "The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-18-010-26-NW-SW-RL

Open Source 'Census' is a Joke. Isn't It - June 18, 2008

Netstat -vat: "I see a lot of so called 'journalists' that write about Open Source with stories up today about The Open Source Census and Microsoft now becoming a sponsor. No joke--but I laughed out loud reading most of them..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-18-001-26-OP-MR

Jonathan Schwartz's Free Software Foundation - June 18, 2008

Outside the Lines: "Sun Microsystems has become its own free software foundation, open-sourcing everything from Java to Solaris, and acquiring the open-source MySQL database for $1 billion in January of this year, as a way to grow its revenue..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-17-023-26-OP-BZ-SV

Can We Advance Open Source by Sacrificing Software Freedom - June 18, 2008

ars technica: "The relationship of mutual benefit that exists between mobile device makers and the open source development community on which they increasingly depend presents a unique paradox..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-17-022-26-OP-BZ-LL

Update: Problems Delay Firefox 3 Launch - June 17, 2008

CNET News: "Update 11:53 a.m. PDT 1853 GMT: The site is working, both the Get Firefox site and the U.S. download page..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-17-024-26-NW-RL

KDE 4.0 is NOT a Failure; It Is a Place to Start - June 17, 2008

troy_at_kde: "There is an old saying that 'Any press is good press,' amongst the marketing types. Well, I was checking on KDE in various news sources today, and we must be getting a lot of 'good' press..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-17-021-26-OP-KE

Why Women Don't FLOSS - June 17, 2008

Milking the GNU: "Did you smile in reading this title Maybe you did just like I did when I read Linus' post launching Linux for the first time..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-17-020-26-OP-CY

Open Enterprise Interview with Ryan Bagueros, North-by-South - June 17, 2008

Computerworld UK: "In particular, Latin America is emerging as a real hotbed of not only free software coding, but free software uptake by governments--to an extent that puts the UK's pathetic bumblings in this area quite to shame..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-17-019-26-IN-BZ

POHMELFS Performance - June 17, 2008

KernelTrap: "'I regularly run and post various benchmarks comparing POHMELFS, NFS, XFS and Ext4, the main goal of POHMELFS at this stage is to be essentially as fast as the underlying local filesystem. And it is...' explained Evgeniy Polyakov..."
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-17-018-26-OS-KN-DV