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We would like to wish all our readers a happy new year. This will be the year that open source will be used by more people then in 2007. The year that people will see that open source is not something for geeks only. That you can use it in any business and that for (almost) every closed source program there is an open source counter part. We hope to see you back at OpenSourceBlog.net and we will do our best to keep you informed.

Jimmy Wales at San Francisco iSummit party announced : The Wikimedia Foundation board voted to approve a deal between the FSF and CC and Wikimedia. We're going to change the GFDL in such a way that Wikipedia will be able to become licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. (More)

Last week the BBC claimed that the amount of Linux users was so low that is was not worth the trouble to optimize the BBC site for this user group. They claimed that only 400 to 600 users visit the site. BBC's Ashley Highfield has now admitted that they got their numbers wrong. (More)

ABC News 20/20 has a story on Hans Reiser, creator of ReiserFS. Maybe you know the story (More)

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 I just wanted to post a quick welcome to sadevi. Sadevi will be helping me out with this blog from now on. So sadevi I hope you like it here and give us some good stories from the world we love and call Open Source

 Michel

The BBC launched an iPlayer that only supports Windows XP, because only a small number of linux visitors come to the BBC website, but why would they come to the BBC when the site's media downloads are Windows XP only?
Looks like a deadlock to me...

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I've made some changes to the summary to get it more in line with the blog template we are using. (More)

Yeah, I know. I should stop playing with different blog software and stick to something for a change. But hey it's my blog :)We are back where we started a year ago (and no blogs to show for it). B2Evolution LifeType being the one now. (More)