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    by Brian Proffitt on Nov 7, 2008
    For the record, I like the Twitter. But darned if I can figure out how someone would make money from it.The concept of micro-blogging is straightforward: in 140 characters, you tell the world at large...
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    by Amanda McPherson on Nov 6, 2008
    Two weeks ago we published a research paper estimating the development cost of a community Linux distribution. It was a fantastic project for the three of us who worked on it. The findings were surpri...
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    by Andy Updegrove on Nov 3, 2008
    If you hail from one of the hot beds of high tech--Silicon Valley, say, or (in my case) the Route 128/495 area of Massachusetts, you've doubtless heard the phrase "serial entrepreneur." Wha...
  • This month's theme at Linux Developer Network is LSB: Linux Standard Base. While LSB generally has focused on C and C++, in fact it bears on several other programming languages. ...

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