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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 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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