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Two recent stories – the decision of Gentoo creator Daniel Robbins to leave Microsoft, and the latter's "technical collaboration" with the open source company SugarCRM – have something important in common.

If the rumored acquisitions by Oracle go ahead, they will have an extremely significant effect. Free software will gain an immediate boost, and hackers will suddenly find themselves in great demand again.

Spread Firefox has translated the secret of open source's power - a huge, distributed and connected development team - into the sphere of marketing. But where are Spread Linux, Spread Thunderbird, Spread GIMP, Spread Audacity and the rest?

[Ed: Seems like Glyn and Helios need to get together on this. Helios is behind the Linux4Austin project. - dcparris]

Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Most people know him as one of the world's greatest composers; few, though, are aware that Mozart was also a hacker.

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Macintosh enthusiasts should refuse the poisoned chalice that Microsoft is offering them with its generous offer to keep Office for the Mac on life support for a few more years, and instead should channel some of their famous passion into supporting the creation of a first-class, full-featured open source office suite.

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The one area that everyone seems to forget about is education. While it is true that GNU/Linux and open source applications are popular among the more tech-savvy users at university, younger students are exposed almost exclusively to Microsoft's products (except in a few enlightened regions of the world).