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Mark Shuttleworth wants to turn canonical (ubuntu) into the next Apple Inc.

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Linewbie.com Posted in interviews, people .

Positive Reddish Head wear merely crested the particular $1 billion-revenue indicate together with practically $150 thousand inside income although Canonical, creator regarding Ubuntu Linux, nonetheless just isn’t rewarding right after more effective decades in operation.

Ubuntu president Indicate Shuttleworth claims… just what exactly?

He has received huge ideas regarding Canonical and also he has wanting to fix a more impressive difficulty: can easily a great available resource business generate income when that constantly offers the computer software apart at no cost and only fees regarding other stuff?
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Happy New Year 2008 from Linux and Open Source Blog

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in events/shows, general topics .

Happy New Year 2008

and happy holidays

This is the last blog post for year 2007, I wish all readers of this blog the best and may 2008 bring you joy and prosperity and make all your wishes come true … welcome 2008

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Google wins in blind search test

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Linewbie.com Posted in review/preview/tests, surveys .

In a blind “taste test” searchers chose Google, then Microsoft and Yahoo. That’s according to the results of a poll created last week by the Google Operating System blog. Participants could try out three unidentified search engines and vote which had the best results. The results are in and 51 percent of the more than 2,000 people who voted said Google had the best results. That was followed by 35 percent for Live Search and 30 percent for Yahoo. In comments to the blog post people said they were surprised Microsoft was ahead of Yahoo, but also surprised Google’s percentage wasn’t higher.

Interestingly, some of the most frequent queries included “Google,” “Microsoft,” “sex,” “cow” and “Liverpool.”

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Tags: blind test, google, live search, search engine battle, search test, yahoo search .

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