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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, November 20, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today you'll discover how low open source company stock has gone, you'll find out that Mozilla is doing okay, that Moonlight is coming (real soon now), that your old computers are going places you don't care to know, and that Jurassic Part may be just around the corner. Or not.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, November 19, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. In today's news, a real news Flash for 64 bit Linux users, Gartner says open source software rules (but watch for those lawsuits), Novell/Microsoft relationship enters its third year, French recording association as stupid as US recording association, and RedHat CEO rocks with E&Y.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, November 17, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. In today's news, Microsoft adopts the Linux mascot, the penguin, for its ads (or maybe not), Dell keeps on pushing Linux netbooks, Windows users prefer OpenOffice.org, Sun rises again (and again) with open source, and black Friday netbook deals (you really need one).

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, November 14, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. In today's news, the economy just keeps on getting worse, proprietary software is really bad, making copyright into copywrong, Ubuntu gets ARMed, and the Sun goes down on a lot of jobs.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Thursday, November 13, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. In today's news, I cover gift notebooks for children, competition for Linux servers from Redmond, a war that pits Linux against Linux (friend against friend), a bizarro-like world, and proof that Google is always interesting. Oh, and I forgot to turn on the studio lights.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Tuesday, November 11, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include a netbook slug-fest, lies and damned lies, misinformation, the Microsoft Linux-killer, smartphone sales figures, a smaller OpenOffice.org, and a digital dark age.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, November 7, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include Obama, the open source president, what follows the death of Windows, an Android cracked, what keeps Microsoft up at night, and HP rolls its own . . . Linux, that is.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, November 5, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include a new president for the United States of America, your tax dollars at work avoiding the benefits of FOSS, an open source election at OpenSUSE, a new legal challenge to the RIAA's anti-piracy campaign, and more good Linux news on the netbook front.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, November 3, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories uncover several conspiracies, including a Linux love/hate relationship, Windows payoffs, er, uhm, bribes, business needs, GNOME support, and award-winning content management.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, October 31, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's scary stories include an Intrepid IBEX from Ubuntu, a netbook from HP, Canonical's finances, fast loading PCs courtesy of Linux, a Miro channel guide, and a DRM-free zone over at the BBC.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, October 27, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include a netbook showdown, new Ubuntus and Fedoras on the horizon, Microsoft's open messaging push, IM protocols, Google and Apple fighting for homosexual rights, and Shatner vs. Takei.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, October 24, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include a nod from those great people at CommandN, open source DRM, how to get VC funding for your open source project, FOSS in Russian schools, and the cost of creating Linux.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 23, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories feature world changing events, Android goes open source, G1s hit the streets, open source trading, Linux netbook return myths, and cancer-fighting beer.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 21, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include people making money from open source software, battling Androids, a new push for Linux standards, and a question as to whether we need any steengkeeng ad campaigns in our quest for World Domination.

WFTL Bytes! is your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 20, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include evil in our governments (US and Canada), Microsoft threatens again, why copy protection is stupid, the cost of policing P2P in schools, and making good OS choices.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 16, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include EVIL androids, EVIL firewalls, EVIL cameras, EVIL content filters, a super fast graphical browser, and some Linux blogs some Linux blogger says you should follow.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 16, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include much ado about Flash, American schools having the life choked out of them, making money from open source, and strange names for babies.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 15, 2008. Today's stories include an election, a talk show, encrypted incrimination, OpenOffice.org and record-breaking downloads, Linux for poor countries, and distributions that speak in tongues.

This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Oct 10, 2008, with your host, me, Marcel Gagné. Today's stories include the opening of Oktoberfest, beer, Mandriva 2009, beer, Opera 9.6, more beer, Google on the defensive, and comparisons of jail cells from Hamburg, Germany.

Your occasiodaily dose of FOSS and Linux news as delivered by your host, Marcel Gagné (aka WFTL). Today's news features a case of Mono for Linux, two projects to sync your BlackBerry to Linux, a LinuxWorld RIP, RMS on clouds, and a super fast booting netbook.