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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 Friday, December 19, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 40. In today's stories, we get a breath of fresh Air from Adobe, montrously huge losses at Palm, the sudden dematerialization of Novell's Brainshare, a disturbing shot of reality from Good OS, and some fantastic Linux toys for the geek on your shopping list.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, November 24, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Stories for today include the end of the road for SCO, (honest, finally, really) first tenuous hops from Ubuntu's Jaunty Jackalope, a brighter than bright future for ASUS, Google and Apple netbooks, and why you aren't safe online.

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