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Just as the northern hemisphere is heating up as we move towards the summer solstice, so is the rhetoric between the RIAA and its legal adversaries.

Harvard law professor Charles Nesson has gotten involved in another file-sharing lawsuit, and he’s making another demand of the recording industry. Nesson says that the RIAA will need to cough up over $100 million that he believes it has obtained from the 30,000+ lawsuits it’s filed, should the cases he’s currently involved in succeed.

The developers over at Canonical have been busy lately. Not only are they working on the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but they are also building an execution environment for Android applications. Android apps will be able to run on Ubuntu, opening the door for a whole new ecosystem of third-party software to come to the Linux desktop.

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