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WFTL Bytes! "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Tuesday, November 11, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné.

Today's stories include a netbook slug-fest, lies and damned lies, misinformation, the Microsoft Linux-killer, smartphone sales figures, a smaller OpenOffice.org, and a digital dark age."

Linux Magazine: "A whole week of success stories for Linux and Open Source, while Microsoft is battling the press, thus the summary from Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation.

Even the New York Times sees a good positioning for Linux on desktops."

Linux Loop: "Apple and Microsoft are both in a situation where they are essentially forced, due to past mistakes or a lack of foresight, to spend a significant amount of time making behind-the-scenes changes.

In this time, Linux could potentially get a real leg up on other OSs."

internetnews.com: "Microsoft's FAST purchase, which closed Friday, gives it one of the premier enterprise search players, and a search platform that, in addition to Windows, supports rival operating systems Linux and Unix..."

Java Developer's Journal: "Instead of migrating all the tried and tested Yahoo! services over to a Windows server infrastructure, wouldn't it be simpler to establish Microsoft Linux through the acquisition of Novell...?"

Linux Foundation Wed love to work with Microsoft Posted by Sumeeth Evans about 22 hours ago with no comments Filed under Open Source Linux stuff Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux Foundation.

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Linux Foundation: "We respond to competitive marketing on behalf of the platform, so when competitors are out spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt about open source or if there is a general lack of understanding of open-source licensing practices or governance practices, our organization plays a role educating [the] industry and end-users on those issues."