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	<title>UK Open Source Media Watch</title>
	<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch</link>
	<description>Supported by UKUUG and the Open Source Academy</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A hoax, faintly amusing or extremely irritating?</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=919</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=919#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Levity</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Judging this weird story from The Builder isn't possible right now as the key part is said to be at 
http://www.linuxpersonas.com/ 
whose sole content currently is the message
This material is being updated and will be made available to Microsoft partners shortly.
 ]]></description>
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		<title>A software puzzle?</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=918</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=918#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Print media</category>
	<category>International</category>
	<category>Community</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This story has been around for a while (it appeared last year here in The Independent!) so its appearance in today's Guardian is a little puzzling.  Much more puzzling is the total absence in these reports and Computer Aid International's Annual Report of any mention of software. ]]></description>
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		<title>Linux on the desktop - a true story</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=917</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=917#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>On-line media</category>
	<category>Desktop Linux</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here from Computerworld.com is six-page piece by Sharon Machlis, its online managing editor, asking the question
Are you looking for a Windows alternative for serious office work? Many people are starting to wonder about their non-Microsoft operating system options, especially given Windows Vista's hefty hardware demands, upgrade costs and license restrictions.
and coming to the conclusion that
After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free v. open wrangle again again</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=916</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=916#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Open philosophy</category>
	<category>GPL revision</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Sinn Fein and the DUP are on the verge of an agreement (BBC news item here) could the parties to the free v. open wrangle at least agree not to provide ammunition for  this kind of piece in Information Week (or anywhere else!).  No doubt the protagonists will brand the report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSBC and SUSE Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=915</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=915#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>On-line media</category>
	<category>Private sector use</category>
	<category>Corporate</category>
	<category>Press releases</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=915</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This story has been around for about a week, with Microsoft's press release being pretty much reproduced by dozens of outlets; this short piece in Computing seems to have been (one of?) the first. There is a  longer item at Computer Business Review emphasising Novell's perspective and one from eWeek looking at it from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft talking the Open Source talk?</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=914</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=914#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Browsers</category>
	<category>Open standards</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=914</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece from Internetnews.com reports that
 Brad Abrams, group program manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET AJAX ... declared that Microsoft is not the cathedral and that open source isn't really a bazaar when it comes to AJAX, a claim that undermines one of the core underpinnings of the open source movement.  

There is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCO goes after Groklaw</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=913</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=913#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>SCO vs IBM</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How did we miss this on Forbes.com a month or so back and the thousands of follow-ups? ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=913</wfw:commentRSS>
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		<title>Open Source and You</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=912</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=912#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Public Awareness</category>
	<category>Open philosophy</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This jargon-free  piece in the highly prestigious MIT Technology Review is just the thing to show your boss, partner, MP, ... or anyone important who thinks FLOSS is just for geeks. ]]></description>
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		<title>ISO will put Open XML on fast track unchanged</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=911</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=911#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Open standards</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to this on the amazing Grolaw, quoting this piece on Computer World
The International Standards Organization (ISO) agreed Saturday to put Open XML, the document format created and championed by Microsoft Corp., on a fast-track approval process that could see Open XML ratified as an international standard by August.
At the time of posting, this appears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free beer!</title>
		<link>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=910</link>
		<comments>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=910#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>site admin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Levity</category>
		<guid>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe tells the unlikely tale of 
 a bunch of Danes who seem to have missed the meeting that made clear this was just a metaphor. "Free as in free software," they explained when rolling out Free Beer, or, as their website now says, "Free as in free speech."
 ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRSS>http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=910</wfw:commentRSS>
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