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Fake Linus Torvalds Set For Web Vitriol Barrage (ChannelWeb)

ChannelWeb covers the Linux Foundation's Fake Linus Torvalds contest. "You've probably heard of Fake Steve Jobs. Now get ready for Fake Linus Torvalds. The Linux Foundation is running a contest in which four different Fake Linus Torvalds will post Twitter messages from the Identi.ca and Twitter feeds, all in an attempt to portray themselves as the most compelling facsimile to the father of Linux. In a blog post earlier this week, Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation, said he expects that some of the posts from the Fake Torvalds will be "dangerously outrageous," while others will be "downright funny.""

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The Hon. Ted Stewart and the Hon. Tena Campbell (Groklaw)

Groklaw introduces the Honorable Ted Stewart and the Honorable Tena Campbell. "The Hon. Tena Campbell is the Chief Judge, and she is assigned to SCO v. IBM. Her bio is here. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton, as was Judge Stewart, the judge assigned now to the SCO v. Novell case. That doesn't mean they were his picks, just that they were appointed during his presidency." Ted Stewart has been assigned to the SCO v. Novell case.

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Windows Loses Money, Linux Nears the $1 Billion Mark (Softpedia)

Softpedia contrasts the growth of Linux to the loss of revenue for Microsoft. "In a time when Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic downturn, the open-source Linux operating system is flourishing. While Windows client revenue has let the Redmond company suffering in the 2009 fiscal year, producing three quarters inferior when compared to FY2008, Linux revenue continues to grow and is right on track of making the open-source OS a $1 billion a year business. Market analysis firm IDC estimates that between 2008 and 2013 Linux revenue will deliver a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of no less than 16.9%."

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Man Uses Linux and CD Tray to Rock Baby to Sleep (Switched)

Linux has many novel uses, including infant care. "Parents of newborns sometimes devise ingenious MacGyver-esque devices to keep their babies entertained, or to, more importantly, soothe them to sleep. One inventive techie, who goes by the YouTube handle macjonesnz, has created a ridiculously inexpensive self-rocking chair using only his computer and a piece of string."

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Public Citizen: Official Word from US Courts -- Feel Free to Use RECAP With Our Blessing

Public Citizen has updated their earlier posting about RECAP, which we linked to earlier in the week. RECAP is a Firefox extension to assist in sharing court documents from PACER and it appeared that the US federal court system was scare-mongering about "open source" in a warning it sent out. "To the extent that messages from some districts sounded more severe, it was simply a matter of reminding all of our ECF filers to be careful about computer security and was not intended to discourage use of RECAP."

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Iomega intros four-bay NAS (Macworld)

Macworld reviews the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d Network Attached Storage device. "It comes in 2, 4 and 8 terabyte configurations for $700, $900 and $1,900 respectively. The StorCenter x4-200d features four hot-swappable SATA II drive bays which come configured as a RAID 5 array, but can also be configured as a RAID 10 (with automatic RAID rebuild) or as a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) configuration. Inside, the system is running an embedded Linux operating system equipped with EMC LifeLine software."

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Microsoft contract forces cancellation of Stallman talk in Argentina (Matware)

The "Matware" site has a brief article (in Spanish) stating that a planned talk by Richard Stallman at the Argentinian National Technological University, Mar del Plata, has been canceled as the result of contracts signed with Microsoft. Said contracts, it is said, prohibit the university from criticizing the company or its products. English translation is available via Google.

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