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Another win for best of breed software in Ubuntu

Blast from the Past This is just something I think is funny.

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Shuttleworth on Microsoft

InĀ recent comments to ITWire, Mark Shuttleworth said: But I’m not here to punish Microsoft, or hate them, I’m here to build a better way, if I can. It will be hard, but we can. And in the cases where we have common cause, I am happy to work with Microsoft. That may be a hard [...]

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Matt Asay joins Canonical

Big development as Matt Asay recently announced he is coming on board Canonical as the new COO. Good Thing For Mr. Asay, this is a good thing: he will greatly expand his influence, and be able to impose his philosophy on what is arguably the most popular distro. Bad Thing For everyone else, this is [...]

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Firefox in Ubuntu to be powered by Microsoft

Lots of discussion around the fact that the next version of Ubuntu will beĀ using Microsoft as the default search provider for Firefox. Oh, that’s not how the announcement puts it of course, relying on the one-thin-step-of-seperation of saying that the default search provider will be Yahoo! But the fact of the matter is that Yahoo! [...]

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