Weekly News #2

• Ubuntu 8.10 is out!
• Linux is running on some machines used in Barack Obama's campaign? Some people said so on a blog here... Wether it's fake news or not, it's good ad for Obama and Linux too.
• The 3.0 version of OpenOffice.org seems to be a success: more than 3 million people downloaded it during one week. 80% of the downloads were Windows versions.
• Canonical Ltd, the producer of today's most popular Linux distro, Ubuntu is still negative in profitability. Company leader Mark Shuttleworth told that the revenues were growing well, and the company is expected to be in positive in 3 to 5 years.
• Linux is teached in Russia's schools. The PSPO program has been introduced in more than 1700 educational institutions. The program was started in order to crack down on software piracy, and substitute illegal software with free solutions. I think, it's a good way: if they teach people in the school how to use Linux, the cost of the switching will be lower for companies.



• A graphical contest for a special series of dutch 5-euro coins was won by a work made using only Open Source software. Here's the example how to make money with Open Source! :)