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Windows is a very important platform, and our justifiable pride in Linux and the GNU stack shouldn’t blind us to the importance of delivering software that is widely useful.
"...Here’s my vision of the future: Smaller businesses. Each with fewer, happier clients. Less money. Lots of them, all over the world." -- NB: see Why The Free Software World is not an “ecosystem” ;)
If you’re a managed service provider or software as a service (SaaS) specialist, here’s an interesting theory: Instead of purchasing dozens — or hundreds — of x86 servers, you’re sometimes better off virtualizing your applications on a mainframe.
Internet phone service provider SIPphone, whose Gizmo Project software enables Linux, Windows, and Mac users to make free phone calls using their PCs, announced this week that it has added support for the AOL Instant Messenger and MSN Messenger networks.
«...I strongly recommend you the answers by José Bové, an "altermondialist" candidate, which where written by a team of specialists of free software in France. This can be considered as a political program for the Free Software movement in France...»
A while back I wrote an article titled Apple – The Competent Danger to Free Software. It got a lot of hits. It also caused a few people to send me emails, one of which called me a traitor to Free Software.
There is a trend these days for shifting from windows to ubuntu. There are various reasons for this trend to gather momentum.
The most important reason is that people have realised the value of free software, both in terms of cost and the freedom which gives flexibility to the user.
"Preserving software freedom in the era of Web applications -- You’ve read the GPL’s preamble, you can name the Four Freedoms, and you do your best to keep proprietary bits off our computers. But what’s the future of free software in the era of Flickr, Google Apps, and Facebook? ..."