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  2. today's leftovers
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  11. Open Hardware/Modding: Seeed, Raspberry Pi, and More
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  12. today's howtos
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  14. Proprietary Fake 'Linux' (Windows) Against GNU/Linux and Microsoft Sells Back Doors as "Sovereign Cloud" or "Sovereignty"
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  16. IBM Red Hat is Selling Slop/Plagiarism, OpenShift, and JBoss
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