The match was won by a team from Munich that chose not to attack, but instead fortified its machine with Free BSD tools.

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TUAW's David Chartier wants to know what you would change about Apple Mail and Laurie A. Duncan wonders if Apple should offer a free OS X virtual machine inside every iPod.

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The trouble is nobody is inspired to get up Monday morning because their job offers free soda in the vending machine.

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The Business Smart series inkjets, like all other Brother products, offer free technical support for the life of the machine.

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Its "tax cuts for 95% of the American people" are the tax-rebate equivalent of the ancient machine-politics practice of handing out free turkeys at holiday time--nice gesture, but it does nothing to increase incentives for productive work, risk- taking and success, good things achieved by cuts in tax rates.

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But there was a penalty: Each machine wound up with 12 to 13 gigabytes less free storage than before.

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Either way, the sub includes 20GB of SkyDrive storage, which is to say if you previously only had 7GB of space, your limit will now get bumped to 20 gigs. (In other words, people grandfathered into 25GB don't get an additional 20 gigabytes.) Of course, you can always deactivate a particular machine through Office.com if you need to free up a license.

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Anyone who sends a tweet to the machine while standing in front of it will receive a free sample of BOS Ice Tea, a popular organic beverage made in South Africa from Rooibos, an indigenous plant which locals have used to make traditional tea for hundreds of years.

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And Google is doing that by offering its product for free: Google Docs takes aim directly at Microsoft's Office revenue machine.

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