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Ostatic: "So who is contributing the most to LibreOffice? ZDNet notes that Oracle, SUSE, and Red Hat drive 70 percent of the development work on the suite."

It's not its posh desktops and laptops that have created major changes in enterprise technology. It's mobile.

By Aaron Levie, contributor FORTUNE -- In 1997, Michael Dell famously declared that if he were CEO of Apple (AAPL), he would close shop and return the money to shareholders.

Steve Jobs has had plenty ...

The H Open: A standard for contributor agreements was the promise of Project Harmony, but now the project's agreements have been released, they appear to have hit all the wrong notes with many in the community.

We look at why Harmony is off-key.

Linux and Open Source: "Would you believe that Microsoft (yes Microsoft) was the fifth largest contributor to the soon to be released Linux 3.0 kernel? Believe it."

Linux Foundation: "10-year open source contributor to support Linux Foundation activities."

Ian's Thoughts: "Becoming a Fedora contributor was easier than I expected.... I could hardly believe my eyes, these pages were laying out a step-by-step process that users could follow in order to become a member of a certain Team.

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KDE.news: "Early on in the lifetime of the KDE Community Forums, the staff launched regularly-held courses for people willing to help KDE called "Klassrooms".

For each of these courses, a mentor (usually a KDE contributor, but not limited to them) guided a group of "students" towards a simple, definite goal that would improve KDE..."

The Open Road: "In 2009, things get more interesting, with Intel making a serious challenge to claim the top spot in Linux kernel contributions."

The October 23, 2008 Linux Journal Live! Editor Shawn Powers and Linux Journal author (and long time KDE contributor) Jes Hall discuss the ins and outs of mini notebooks, and compare several models.

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Join editor Shawn Powers and Linux Journal author (and long time KDE contributor) Jes Hall this Thursday evening, Oct 23 at 7:30pm Central, when they discuss mini notebooks and which one you should buy.

Remember to bring your questions and ask them in the chat room on the side of the video -- Shawn and Jes will interact with the audience throughout the show.

See you there!

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