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The New York Times On Ubuntu: Half-Right

 
When an article about Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu begins with the words " They're either hapless pests or the very people capable of overthrowing Windows. Take your pick ", then I'm fairly sure I'm not about to read a good article about any of the above. But that's the first line of a piece in, incredibly, the New York Times about them. (link)

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