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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Tuesday, January 13, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 44. Today we uncover some Vista trash, an ongoing battle between the forces of OO and Go-OO, Shuttleworth and Ubuntu get the New York treatment (Times, that is), Linux goes to CES, Fedora gets a moniker, and Twitter gets bashed.

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, December 10, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 36. In today's news, we find that Linux and free software are under attack, by school teachers, that Jon maddog Hall is ready to set Obama straight on free software, that there's more than one open source office suite, and that the Chinese government may be using Linux for dastardly purposes! And once again, I forgot to turn on the studio lights (sigh).

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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 5, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 34. Today's show is brought to you by the letter O. Stories include a Songbird that's just turned 1, an extreme makeover for OpenOffice.org, more on the faster, slicker version of said OpenOffice.org, IBM reinvents and rediscovers thin clients, as a newcomer to the world of Opera hits a high note.

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