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Is Ubuntu the Barack Obama of Linux?
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| The unfairness arises when you look at the Linux distros that Ubuntu is
| topping. Debian, for instance, has been around far longer than upstart
| Ubuntu. For goodness sake, no one even heard of Ubuntu until 2004 – because
| it didn’t exist before then. Meanwhile, Debian has served the Linux faithful
| since way back in 1993. (Indeed, Ubuntu was a fork from Debian). Yet the
| Linux Foundation surveys from ‘05, ‘06 and ‘07 all put Ubuntu ahead of
| Debian.
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| [...]
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| To understand Ubuntu’s rapid climb, it helps to look at another relative
| newcomer who has enjoyed a rapid ascent, Senator Barack Obama. The paths to
| popular success for both Obama and Ubuntu, despite respective fields as
| different as politics and software, are remarkably similar.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3780876/Is+Ubuntu+the+Barack+Obama+of+Linux?.htm
Why "Joe the Plumber" Should Switch to Open Source
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| Ask a geek about open source and they’ll usually jump right into talking
| about the operating system. True, you need never pay for an OS again. There
| are some very decent Linux-based open source operating systems available that
| are more than capable of doing what at least 90 per cent of PC users out
| there want.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3780981/Why+Joe+the+Plumber+Should+Switch+to+Open+Source.htm
Recent:
Obama Ubuntu
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| People from the Obama campaign have said that they use Ubuntu 8.04. It seems
| to be used nationally.
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| Does anyone know any more about the use of Ubuntu by the Obama campaign and
| can provide us with more details?
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http://boredandblogging.com/2008/10/21/obama-ubuntu/
BSA lobbies Obama for software patents at the Democratic Convention in Denver
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| IP-watch tell us that BSA went to lobby Obama at the Democratic Convention in
| Denver with a list of principles, where the first one is "inspire creativity
| and innovation through strong, comprehensive, and enforceable intellectual
| property policies, including copyright, patent and trademark laws." Software
| patents are definitely on the top of the agenda of American multinationals.
| BSA does not has any small software company in its members, and Microsoft
| more active then the other members in using the association as a vector for
| its purposes.
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http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/forum/t-86815/bsa-lobbies-obama-for-software-patents-at-the-democratic-convention-in-denver
http://tinyurl.com/68wgn9
Microsoft Word Now Knows the Difference Between Osama and Obama
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| In my post yesterday, I quoted a frustrated reader who couldn’t believe that
| Microsoft Word still proposes “Osama” as a corrected version of “Obama.” He
| wanted to know why Microsoft didn’t update its dictionary.
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/microsoft-word-now-knows-the-difference-between-osama-and-obama/?ref=personaltech
Microsoft tries to fix big glitch on Obama
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| One mixup, with potentially vast effect, apparently belongs to the
| unintentional category and gained wide currency this week: The spell-checker
| in Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail software recommends that users replace the
| word "Obama" with "Osama."
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| 'Can of worms'
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http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/19875329.html?location_refer=Most%20Viewed:Homepage
Related:
Obama Campaign Hopes for Better Web Security
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| The requirements are pretty much what you'd read in any e-commerce security
| help-wanted ad: VPN (virtual private network) and Unix or Linux experience,
| along with a "deep understanding" of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl)
| development. And of course, the successful candidate must be willing
| to "respond off-hours to high urgency security situations."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/146997/obama_campaign_hopes_for_better_web_security.html
Obama Voices Support for ODF
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| OpenDocument Format supporters are welcoming presidential hopeful Sen. Barack
| Obama's promise to put government data online in universally accessible
| formats should he be elected.ODF a National Standard in Korea
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2219248,00.asp
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