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The second episode of Microsoft's costly ad campaign is out, and it's becoming clearer what the overall purpose is: to make Bill Gates more cuddly - and de-fang Microsoft in the eyes of the public. That could mean trouble for open source, now that Google is turning into the digital bogeyman: regulatory authorities might see this kinder, gentler Microsoft as part of the anti-trust solution, not part of the problem.

Practically everyone, it seems, is celebrating GNU's 25th birthday - and rightly so. But they are celebrating it for the wrong reason: GNU's achievement is far greater than simply kick-starting the free software movement.

Many people see Google's new Chrome browser as big trouble for Firefox. Here's why Mozilla needn't be shaking in its boots - and why maybe Microsoft should.

Doug Moran, one of Pentaho's founders, offers a fascinating description of how the company was created in part by bringing on board the chief architects of several other open source projects, offers not one but two explanations of the Pentaho name, and says more on the recent adoption of the GNU GPLv2 for its Business Intelligence platform.

If you're in the EU, please write to your MEP. There's an important vote on some amendments to telecommunications legislation that threaten to sneak in a number of measures that could be catastrophic for the Internet: allowing media companies to snoop through your traffic, take control of your computer, and generally play cop, prosecutor and judge.

Ryan Bagueros set up North-by-South to link top free software hackers in Latin America with US companies wanting to commission code. In this interview, he talks about how to create and manage distributed development teams, the advantages of using programmers based in Latin America, and why free software is so damned successful in that region.

Bernard Dalle explains what the attraction is, how his company Index Ventures sees no shortage of top-flight open source startups following investments in MySQL, TrollTech and Zend, and why he, too, hates software patents.

A Microsoft job ad for Senior Marketing Manager – Open Source Community, spells out the company's plans: a concerted attack on GNU/Linux. Once use of the leading open source program has been reduced, Microsoft can then easily dispose of the now-dependent open source app vendors, assuming they are foolish enough to fall for this trick.

Mark Shuttleworth explains why he called it Ubuntu, reveals the upcoming Netbook Remix - a version of Ubuntu designed for ultraportables - and talks about how the Internet is the new killer app that opens the door for open source.

Mark Tolliver, CEO of the source code audit company Palamida, talks about how painful personal experiences led to its creation, the kind of surprises Palamida *always* finds in people's code, and why incorporating open source code in projects will get easier for companies.

Eclipse is still open source's best-kept secret. Here Mike Milinkovich, boss of the Eclipse Foundation, explains how Eclipse has evolved from its origins as a Java IDE, what goes to make up the new Equinox run-time project, and why he hopes Microsoft will join Eclipse.

Bill Karpovich, CEO and co-founder of the open source system management company Zenoss, talks about the origins of his company, why IT management is broken, and the role of Zenoss in a world of cloud computing and software as a service.

MySQL's boss Marten Mickos gives the real story about adding proprietary elements to MySQL - what will and what won't be free - and why he is a pragmatist rather than dogmatist when it comes to open source licensing.

When you think of open source, you probably don't have specialist areas like Business Process Management (BPM) in mind, but Ismael Ghalimi, founder of the open source BPM company Intalio, thinks you should. He talks about Intalio's origins, how it uses open source and what he describes as its “Digg for Product Management" community programme.

One of the leading PHP experts is the Netherlands-based Ivo Jansch, Technical Director and CTO of the specialist PHP and Zend company Ibuildings. Here he talks here about his initial scepticism when confronted with open source, what he views as the strengths – and weaknesses – of PHP, and how he would like to see it evolve.

France is not a country many would associate with free software startups, but that's changing. One of the leading companies of this new Nouvelle Vague is Nuxeo, which was set up by Stefane Fermigier, now its CEO. He talks about the the origins of his company, and its place in the world of French free software.

In the wake of Sun's planned purchase of MySQL, the open source systems management company Hyperic must be high on most people's list of potential acquisitions in the future. Co-founder and CEO Javier Soltero talks about Hyperic's origins, the importance of its community, and what the future holds.

Jono Bacon is well known for LugRadio, but he is also Canonical's Ubuntu Community Manager. Here, he talks about how the Ubuntu community functions, his role in that process, and what lies ahead for Canonical and Ubuntu.

Fabrizio Capobianco talks about how his company Funambol walks the open source tightrope, the future of free software on mobile phones, and why he is glad that the Honest Public Licence he drew up in 2006 has finally been superseded.

By acquiring MySQL, Sun clearly wants to buy into the hugely-successful LAMP stack and its success in running most of Web 2.0. But to get the fullest benefit, it must push out GNU/Linux, either with OpenSolaris or Solaris. Is this the birth of SAMP?