linux.conf.au: Look Tux, no wires
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| Hence, it was not surprising that he opted to study computer science when he
| made his way to university. Two years after the GNU/Linux operating system
| was first released, Hawtin started messing around with it. He taught himself
| the C programming language and started porting applications to this new toy.
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| In 1994, at the age of 20, he founded the first of a couple of Linux user
| groups - the University of Queensland Linux Users Group. Two years later, he
| repeated the act in Toowomba and the Toowomba Home Unix Users Group was born.
| In between he wrote his own interpreter and then a compiler and provided
| support on IRC and newsgroups, also doing some work on the X Windows code.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16086/1090/
Mark Shuttleworth and Google's founder are other good examples.
Here is another bizarre attempt to enter a market.
Bidders Set for Airwaves Auction
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| Vulcan Spectrum LLC, a company owned by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul G.
| Allen, also qualified. Among Allen's many investments is Charter
| Communications Inc., a cable company with 5.7 million subscribers.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080115/spectrum_auction.html?.v=1
Allen's horrible tablet has vanished from the face of the Earth. Poor design,
high cost.
Related:
Patent troll? Say it ain't so, Paul Allen
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| Digeo is a company that's famous for two things, and neither of them is
| the product it makes. Thing One: it is funded by Vulcan, the venture
| company owned by one of the iconic figures of the computer business,
| Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. Allen is also the chairman of
| Digeo's board. Thing Two: Digeo has done far better extracting licensing
| fees for its patent portfolio out of companies like Palmsource and,
| presumably, Yahoo, than it has selling its interactive-TV systems.
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/3497
Microsoft co-founder looks to add to spectrum cache
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| Allen, through Vulcan Spectrum LLC, disclosed a commitment earlier this week
| to bid at the Jan. 24 auction, alongside companies including Google Inc. and
| AT&T Inc.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-co-founder-looks-add-spectrum/story.aspx?guid=%7B2FAAAA6F%2D797F%2D43DC%2DBE6A%2DB299BB7C58B7%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2743fu
CPE STB vendor goes retail with Linux-based DVRs
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| Paul Allen's Digeo venture is perhaps best-known in the Linux
| community as the employer of Andrew Morton, Linux 2.6 maintainer
| and right-hand man to Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8029845408.html
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