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More than 7,000 angry Linux users have protested against the European Union after it excluded them from viewing streaming videos.
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The cost of migrating from Windows XP to Windows Vista will encourage more companies to seriously consider moving to desktop Linux, the chief executive of open-source and networking company Novell said on Monday.
An eagerly-awaited report into the use of open source software in the UK education sector was published on Friday, and contained evidence that schools could significantly cut their IT spending by moving to non-proprietary software.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
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