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[News] New Video Interview with Mark Shuttleworth

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Full Exclusive Mark Shuttleworth Video Interview Now Available

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/full_exclusive_mark_shuttlewor.html?CMP=OTC-6YE827253101&ATT=Full+Exclusive+Mark+Shuttleworth+Video+Interview+Now+Available
http://tinyurl.com/6orupx

Another one with RMS coming soon...

Spotlight on FOSS: An Interview with Mark Shuttleworth

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| Richard Stallman has agreed to be our next interview, although we had meet 
| some conditions, which shouldn't surprise anyone that follows him. Stay tuned 
| for more information on that interview, but feel free to contact us with 
| questions you would like us to ask him.   
| 
| Because Richard Stallman played a significant role in the development of 
| Emacs, we will be discussing Emacs as our Software Spotlight for that 
| episode.  
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/04/15/an-interview-with-mark-shuttleworth.html?page=2


Related:

Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community

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| "That's extortion and we should call it what it is," he said. "To say, as 
| [Microsoft CEO Steve] Ballmer did, that there is undisclosed balance sheet 
| liability, that's just extortion and we should refuse to get drawn into that 
| game. On the other side, if Microsoft is concerned about its intellectual 
| property, there is no one in the free software community that wants to 
| violate anyone's IP. Disclose the patents and we'll fix the code. 
| Alternatively, move on."      
| 
| Microsoft has said it does disclose which patents are being violated, but 
| only in one-on-one conversations with vendors. To Shuttleworth, that is not 
| disclosure, because patents are public documents.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2167193,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616


[Mark Shuttleworth Interview]

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| Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won't 
| say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: "It's an 
| unsafe neighbourhood, why don't you pay me 20 bucks and I'll make 
| sure you're okay," that's illegal. It's racketeering. What Microsoft 
| is doing with intellectual property is exactly the same. It's a great 
| company and I have great admiration for it, but this was not a 
| well considered position.
| 
| So you wouldn't do a deal?
| 
| No, absolutely not. But the time will come when the folks at 
| Microsoft who have a clear vision for the company as a participant 
| in this community, rather than as a hostile antagonist, will win. 
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http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672


Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey

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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says 
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their 
| Linux distribution of choice.  
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html


Survey: Desktop Linux use grows

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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux, 
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users 
| in the past year.  
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html


Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports

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| For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey 
| compared with fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| In those businesses and organizations that have deployed Linux desktops, 39.5 
| percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines. 
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
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