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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135545-c,linux/article.html		  * Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community - Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors. It's strategy is to drive a wedge into the open source community and unsettle the marketplace. Also at issue is the fact that Microsoft has not disclosed the 235 patent claims it says are being violated by Linux and other open source software. "That's extortion and we should call it what it is," he said. "To say, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did, that there is undisclosed balance sheet liability, that's just extortion and we should refuse to get drawn into that game. On the other side, if Microsoft is concerned about its intellectual property, there is no one in the free software community that wants to violate anyone's IP. Disclose the patents and we'll fix the code. Alternatively, move on." http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2167193,00.asp

 * Telco Dumps Red Hat for Ubuntu - Australian mobile service provider has replaced its Red Hat enterprise distribution with Ubuntu Linux, claims no downtime in eight months. Locatrix founder and CEO, Mark White, said the company did a lot of early development on Solaris but wanted to move to rack-mounted Intel servers, which initially ran Red Hat Linux. White said the reasons for moving from the pay-for Red Hat to the zero-cost Ubuntu was not so much about the price, as Locatrix still runs a bit of Red Hat for front-end workloads, but was more about Ubuntu's ability to install new software seamlessly.http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135545-c,linux/article.html		 

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 52 for the week August 5th - August 11th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-August/000324.html (tribe 4 released) - don't need frozen info

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

  • Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community - Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors. It's strategy is to drive a wedge into the open source community and unsettle the marketplace. Also at issue is the fact that Microsoft has not disclosed the 235 patent claims it says are being violated by Linux and other open source software. "That's extortion and we should call it what it is," he said. "To say, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer did, that there is undisclosed balance sheet liability, that's just extortion and we should refuse to get drawn into that game. On the other side, if Microsoft is concerned about its intellectual property, there is no one in the free software community that wants to violate anyone's IP. Disclose the patents and we'll fix the code. Alternatively, move on." http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2167193,00.asp

  • Telco Dumps Red Hat for Ubuntu - Australian mobile service provider has replaced its Red Hat enterprise distribution with Ubuntu Linux, claims no downtime in eight months. Locatrix founder and CEO, Mark White, said the company did a lot of early development on Solaris but wanted to move to rack-mounted Intel servers, which initially ran Red Hat Linux. White said the reasons for moving from the pay-for Red Hat to the zero-cost Ubuntu was not so much about the price, as Locatrix still runs a bit of Red Hat for front-end workloads, but was more about Ubuntu's ability to install new software seamlessly.http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135545-c,linux/article.html

http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Lenovo_laptops_now_with_Linux/articleshow/2261753.cms

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTU13607082007-1.htm

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/08/07/23816.aspx

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3693511

In The Blogosphere

  • Dell hails 2008 as the year of the corporate Linux desktop - The advent of desktop virtualisation will provide the missing link for Linux to shine on the corporate desktop, Dell chief technology officer Kevin Kettler predicted in a keynote speech at the Linuxworld conference in San Francisco. - http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2196193/dell-hails-2008-corporate-linux

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (31355) +65 # over last week
  • Critical (18) -1 # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (15639) +137 # over last week
  • Unassigned (23492) +63 # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (113612) +1067 # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats

  1. Spanish (23686) -271 # over last week
  2. French (38777) +15 # over last week
  3. Swedish (54562) +156 # over last week
  4. English-UK (60347) +142 # over last week
  5. German (63255) +209 # over last week

Remaining string to translate in Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/

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