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DRM, GPLv3 just 'hot air': Linus Torvalds

Digital rights management (DRM) and the General Public License (GPL) cause a lot of 'hot air' to be exchanged but they are not a 'big deal', according to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.
Oxer, Waugh retain Linux Australia spots

Incumbents Jon Oxer and Pia Waugh will keep their respective positions as president and vice president of Australia's peak Linux body for another year.
Future operating systems to remain as Windows and Linux

Academic says the operating systems of the future will be called Windows and Linux, no matter what they look like.
Ubuntu tops desktop, server Linux enthusiast poll

Preliminary results of a survey conducted by Waugh Partners consultancy at the 2008 Linux conference -- linux.conf.au -- have revealed Linux trends and Australia's open source hubs.

StartupCamp Melbourne: The review
StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0.
Google should come clean on datacentres
It's nice that Google says it has put an effort into making its datacentres more energy efficient, but the search giant's pledges won't mean much until it discloses just how many of the beasties it's actually running.
US shows what OPEL could have been
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
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