WE SAT with Pablo Cecconi from GIS unit at Buenos Aires government to learn more about the city's official map site, built with and running on open source software. He tells of its story, budget worries, hiring challenges and overloaded servers.

I’ve been fiddling with Linux for a decade now. And, frankly, back then it was a total bear to get it working - you had to really, really, want to.

This is a rant. If you are easily offended then don't read this. I repeat. Don't read this. I am going to be ranting about how fan boyz and girlz go on and on and on about how easy it is to install programs in windows and how hard it is to install programs in Linux.

So what prompted me to show such a deep interest in a product after reading for only 5 minutes about it? It was the open nature of the product’s design philosophy on both hardware and the software front. It is hacker-friendly, easily customizable, *built on the Linux platform and hence guaranteed to attract a large user and developer community.*

It may be a brave opinion but I predict that Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista are going to be the two operating systems that will take over the largest chunk of the desktop OS market during the next couple of years. This comparison is based on my experience with both systems during the last couple of weeks on two different computers.

Raymond Niro rarely looks for clients anymore. Instead, the charming, Chicago-based litigator hunts for patents. This unconventional strategy has made him rich and, in some circles anyway, infamous.

I read a recent post called “Why I Won’t Be Recommending Linux to Family this Holiday Season.” The funny part is, the real reason…he doesn’t want to take the heat for telling them to use Linux and have something go wrong! Wimp!

We have just finished the cross-over from our old site which ran on Pligg to our new site which runs on Drupal + some of our own custom modules.