[Pdx-pm] Fwd: Code Today: OS Envy, Harpooning Narwhal, None of Your Business, CES 411, and Other Stories

Fri Jan 25 15:09:54 PST 2013

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Subject: Code Today: OS Envy, Harpooning Narwhal, None of Your Business,
CES 411, and Other Stories
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Open Dialog What the Open Source Community Is Talking About

Open Source OS
[image: Firefox
Fone]<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zknm22tg0qktel64jbbgn8nn6mg8ffrbfs3iuin0>Evidently
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itself as a less expensive next-gen phone.

Das ist nicht dein Bier!*
*The city of *Munich* has been a poster child for Linux adoption in
government, but Microsoft claims that the German metropolis could have
saved more by staying with their OS. The only problem? MS won't
release<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z7sf3r53j37o5lmkpg6djehefft2ogg0ke4j1bno>the
study that claims to prove it.

Harpooning Narwhal
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you hire a bunch of open source programmers to code your election software,
you might expect them to open source the results. This is an interesting
fight<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z65lkaimejj2qp6jppst03p3vd23cetat04dlml8>
.

Leaky Java
The Good Ship Java keeps springing leaks faster than *Captain Ellison* can
patch them. After working overtime to fix a major vulnerability last week,
the gang from Oracle was surely dismayed to have two
more<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zt4qusihoo33bcqh265h1tsb99bsifao74ef2epg>crop
up this week.
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"The buzz around here," says *Abigail*, "has been about the *Sony Xperia Z
phone*, which doesn't seem like something—out of all the gadgetry at
CES—that would be the pick item. But we're quite interested in its ability
to natively display 1920x1080 pixels with such a small, thin form factor."

*Robert Stephenson* found two items of interest, first citing "*Securify's
Almond+ touchscreen router*." His second pick? "*Syntellia's Fleksy
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He explains: "Besides the usual dictionary correction, the key positions on
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interesting possibilities, and the *Luminae keyboard* looks promising!"
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   - OSCON CFP 2013
   - OS Envy
   - Collegiate Quiz
   - CES 411
   - Game of Love

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