Once upon a time, neither long ago nor far way, repeated server crashes caused a client’s IT management to replace about 40 x86 Linux servers with nice reliable Windows products.

"A common misconception is that only programmers can contribute to free software. The first significant reference I recall to this was in a presentation by Pia Waugh [1] where she mentioned that she felt that the way words such as “coder” and “hacker” are used in the community as synonyms for “contributor” are denigrating to people such as herself who aren’t coders..."

There are Linux users that have little use for productivity suites, and depend instead on a simple text editor, which has all the functions any one man or woman could need, and makes files that everyone can read.

"...Firewall logs and network captures are being used to find and arrest dissidents. It's not hypothetical, it's not paranoid, it's real... and happening with the technology we've all been building..."

"RDF and OWL provide a standard way to describe the meaning of any data structure, such that any application that speaks these languages can correctly interpret the meaning without having to have been explicitly programmed to do so in advance [...] If you really look at RDF, OWL, and in particular GRDDL and SPARQL, it becomes crystal clear that this is a set of technologies about freeing data from

Microsoft admits: Linux biggest threat to WinblowsHere we have it! Finally Microsoft admits that Linux is the biggest threat to its Windows operating system! Well, almost…just not that directly.

Thanks to the EU, and contrary to much media speculation from both sides of the water, we can now hope for a positive expansion of innovation and competition on the desktop. All the evidence suggests that control of all aspects of the market by one company is neither healthy nor conducive to innovation or competition.