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Just an observation: eBay now supports sending notifications to various IM networks… the usual list. Except Skype. Now that’s curious, since eBay owns Skype, right? I would expect it to be the first offered, or at the very least be on the list….

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Mark Shuttleworth on software patents: Microsoft is not the real threat The real threat to Linux is the same as the real threat to Microsoft, and that is a patent suit from a person or company that is NOT actually building software, but has filed patents on ideas that the GNU project and Microsoft are [...]

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Oh fab. Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. See http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm (Software) patents that (IMHO) shouldn’t exist in the first place, but that’s not the point I want to make here. Companies now need to [...]

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OSDC is a grass-roots conference providing Open Source developers with an opportunity to meet, share, learn, and of course show-off. OSDC focuses on Open Source developers building solutions directly for customers and other end users, anything goes as long as the code or the development platform is Open Source. Last year’s conference attracted over 180 [...]

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Alrighty, I’m flying down in the morning and will spend Thursday at the OpenCeBIT conference and exhibition. While in Sydney, I’ll be scouting for potential MySQL support engineers in the APAC region, and signing up more sponsors for the OSDC conference. Just catch me on the ground at OpenCeBIT if you want to chat with [...]

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