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"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."

"As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

- Bill Gates

As the first day of the Ubuntu Developer Week ended just moments ago, I thought I should give my impressions about it. So here goes...

• Red Hat continues to rise and shine while Novell is collapsing slowly:

For the quarter ended Nov. 30, Wall Street analysts project revenues of $188 million and earnings of $0.16 per share, according to Thomson Reuters. That's in line with Red Hat executives' own earlier guidance during the company's second-quarter fiscal 2010 analyst call, during which they provided revenue projections in the $187-$189 million range. . .

One of the biggest events we arranged lately was a trip to the ancient city of Petra arranged by a group of JUST students who just love the amazing free open source web browser FireFox, and thought that this might just be best way to promote it, as well as celebrate its 1 billion'th download!