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DoctorMO's Blog: "An odd bit of news from the xorg foundation. During some discussion on their mailing list about missing funds it became apparent that PayPal had simply taken $5k of their money because PayPal thought xorg foundation were some sort of scam."

MyBroadband: "In June Microsoft will release a final version of its Office 2010 productivity suite. Naturally many users will upgrade, at substantial cost, to the latest version of the popular Office suite, but for those not so eager to hand over their money to Microsoft there are still many great alternatives"

Do you think that converting your clunky, maintenance-burdened physical desktop OS to a clunky, maintenance-burdened VM will save you some money? Think again.

With the new year right around the corner, it's worth thinking about where you can get the biggest bang for your buck--quite literally.

In a lot of organizations, budgeting is a funny exercise that requires you to "use it or lose it" at the end of the year while also having surprisingly detailed plans for next year's money.

MakeTechEasier: "While on a project, where money was scarce, we were scrambling around looking for a free or open source HTML editor that can provide us the same functionality as Adobe Dreamweaver.

During my analysis of the different HTML editor out there, I came across Amaya."

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CIO: "Collecting money from customers should be the easy part of your business, but an billing system that underperforms can make life unnecessarily difficult for CIOs."

The Linux Mint Blog: "I was recently contacted by a person called Graeme Cobbett. In his email he told me he got his Windows license refunded and donated that money to Linux Mint.

Of course, as you can imagine, he felt pretty happy about it and he wanted to let people know how he did it."

Groklaw: "I have a friend whose theory of life is that when you are down to your last $100, rather than skimping, you should go out and spend it on a luxurious, wonderful meal, because afterwards you'll think of something.

SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee must be a kindred spirit."

Serverwatch: "If you're tired of throwing major money into your IT infrastructure every three to four years, try leasing and free yourself of those big money payouts that deplete your profits."