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iPad Comes With 30,000 Free E-Books

Huck Finn, Pride & Prejudice, Roget's Thesaurus, you get the idea- the "classics". All available free by way of iPad's e-book storefront for free.
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Red Hat Open-Sources Virtualization Protocol - InformationWeek

Will the world of Open Source provide real competition for the proprietary world of copyrighted privacy? Which do you root for?
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Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud -- Cloud Computing

Is this huge or minor? Ordinary folks can leverage "the cloud" and make their stuff available to as many people as might want it . . .
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Google 'Go' Name Brings Accusations Of 'Evil' -- InformationWeek

Is it possible that the search giant didn't know this name was already taken? Should they be allowed to take what is too good to belong to a little guy? Is Google stupid or just evil?
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Google offering open-source Go language

InfoWorld - Google on Tuesday said it was putting into the open-source realm an experimental programming language called Go, which attempts to combine the development speed of a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++.
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Google nicked my programming name

It seems unlikely that the search giant didn't already know the name was taken, but that's their defense. So is Google evil already?
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Microsoft Funds Apache

"Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open-source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation, one of open-source software's biggest supporters. "Microsoft is becoming a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. This sponsorship will enable the ASF to pay administrators and other support staff so that ASF developers can focus on writing great software," said Sam Ramji, a senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft. He announced the move Friday in a speech at the Open Source Convention, and noted Microsoft's support of Apache on the software company's Port 25 blog as well. "
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Ladies and Gentleman- The 18 Button OpenOffice Mouse

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Orvieto, Italy, November 6, 2009: In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. With a revolutionary and patented design featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org applications such as Writer and Calc than the conventional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys presently permit.
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