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China Mobile, which has more subscribers than there are U.S. residents, is looking replicate the success of the iPhone App store on a much grander scale.

<img src="http://lwn.net/images/dereehorst_sm.jpg" alt="[De Reehorst]" border=0 width=150 height=112 hspace=3 align="right"> At the recent co-located NLUUG and Embedded Linux conferences, Harald Welte gave a keynote presentation regarding how companies could do better in supporting Linux and free software.

His talk, entitled "How chipmakers should (not) support free software" looked at many reasons why chip vendors should provide better support for free software, as well as how they should go about doing that.

Wikipedia is one of the preeminent examples of what can be done in an open setting; it has, over the years, accumulated millions of articles - many of them excellent - in a large number of languages.

Wikipedia also has a bit of a licensing problem, but it would appear that recent events, including the release of a new license by the Free Software Foundation, offers a way out.

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Netflix announced today that they have begun testing Mac video streaming to a small portion of their subscribers, and expects widespread availability by the end of the year.

Netflix, Inc., the world's largest online movie rental servi...

<img src="http://lwn.net/images/conf/lk2008/james_bottomley-sm.jpg" width=125 height=151 alt="[James Bottomley]" border=0 align="right"> James Bottomley opened this year's Linux-Kongress with his views on the Linux community's values.

What these values are is not entirely obvious. Other groups have well-articulated value systems which define them, but while the Linux community's values are not so clearly expressed, they are central to what we do.

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Carriers need to enter 'the cloud' to keep their grip on subscribers October 7 2008 - 5:30 pm EDT Colin Gibbs Click here for more from Colin Gibbs .

<img src="http://lwn.net/images/upstreamrep_sm.png" width=150 height=140 border=0 hspace=3 alt="[upstream report screenshot]" align="right"> Ubuntu has taken some heat over the years for its relationship with upstream projects, but the distribution seems determined to change that impression.

One of the efforts in that direction is the Ubuntu Upstream Report, which was recently released in beta form.

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In our final report from the Linux Plumbers Conference, Don Marti covers the discussion at the video input microconference.

Topics include the GSPCA drivers, libv4l, frame servers, and the need for an autofocus daemon. Click below (subscribers only) for the full story.

<img src="http://lwn.net/images/conf/lpc-ks-2008/linus-git-tutorial-sm.jpg" width=150 height=121 alt="[Linus]" border=0 align="right" hspace=2> The Linux Plumbers Conference was held last week in Portland, Oregon.

Your editor, having finally caught up on his sleep, has written up a summary of what transpired there (note that there are some individual session reports still in the works as well).

It was, in short, one of the best Linux-related events he has attended in some time. Click below (subscribers only) for the full article.

The Fedora project is back on track after its recent "infrastructure issues" with new package signing keys as well as packages and updates signed with the new keys.

Fedora users should soon be able to update their systems, but there is no further information about what went wrong.

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