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An anonymous reader writes:
Infoweek's Serdar Yegulalp wraps last week's event with Inside The OSCON 2008 Conference, which pulls together interviews with Mark Shuttlework, Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin, MySQL's Zach Urlocker and Sam Ramji, who's director of Microsoft's Open Source Lab. Best quotes: "We will make a significant attempt to elevate the Linux desktop to the point where it is as good or better than Apple," from Shuttleworth; and ""If I would start a business tomorrow I'd do it in the netbook marketplace. I'd build a dead-simple $200 device that targets sports fans, women over forty," from Zemlin.
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An anonymous reader writes:
Everyone's favorite technologically challenged senator and ranking member of the Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, Ted Stevens, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for making false statements on his financial forms.
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dlgeek writes:
The story of Hans Reiser is well known to all Slashdotters by now. Some still placed doubts about the conviction, stating that he might be innocent. It now seems that all doubt has been quelled, since Alameda County District Attorney Thomas Orloff has revealed that Hans Reiser will disclose the location of Nina's body for a reduced sentence.
The deal is not yet finalized, though. "There's been some overtures," Orloff said, "But everything is in its preliminary stage." The deal would reduce his conviction from first degree to second degree murder. In addition, an anonymous source close with the situation said that "the only real leverage he has is if he can provide a body. He really doesn't have any options left. Even if he won a retrial somehow, he'd likely be convicted."
