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    BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    Your link points to an article about Saudi women

    But I believe the article you want to link to may have already been posted.
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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    what does Ubuntu have to do with Floss? I Floss every day I promise.

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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    It's here:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7358483.stm

    It is not unusual for Ubuntu to appear on the BBC news website, I've seen it a few times. The key thing here is that it is not only linked from the news front page, but is under the "Other top stories" heading.
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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    Sorry too many tabs open

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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    from the link:
    He said the French police force was currently deploying 50,000 Ubuntu-powered machines, while Spanish education authorities were rolling out 500,000 desktops with the OS.
    hmm, the chairs will be flying at redmond!
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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    Ubuntu just got millions of dollars worth of free advertisement. Sometimes the news can be "good".
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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    Mark Shuttleworth is a space tourist...? LOL.

    But really, that's good news - awareness never hurt .

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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    "Mr Shuttleworth said he believed there were about eight to nine million users of Ubuntu worldwide."
    Now thats good news...
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    Re: BBC report on Ubuntu and FLOSS 21//04/08

    *SIGH*

    "If people think of computing as going to a PC, sitting down and starting Word, then the traditional view, of using Windows and Office, will persist.

    "But if people think of their daily experience as a sit down on the web, we know that people can have a very compelling experience on Linux.

    "In fact, we know it is a better web experience because they can do it without spyware, without viruses."
    I would have liked him to say that it's a competing OS. It does everything that Windows can do with the added advantge of almost zero virues (never sure about that) malware etc. It seems to come across as a "web OS"


    Nice follow up article as well

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technolog...for_linux.html
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