The following from Dana Blankenhorn has caught my eyes. In a nutshell:
showing interest in Open Source and advocating it does not make you a
zealot. It makes it clear that you follow industry's trends and reach for
the future.
Where are the proprietary hits?
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| I come in for a lot of critical comments here for being an open source
| zealot. (Pictured here is Bill Gates, in about 1986, with Windows 1.0.
| I have an autographed copy.)
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| I'm not a zealot. I'm a reporter by trade, specifically a business
| reporter. I like to see folks making money and getting things done
| the way sportswriters like to see a great game or performance.
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| Today, in 2006, performance comes from using open source.
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| [...]
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| Open source creates too much momentum too quickly for most proprietary
| start-ups to compete. The strategy, even for firms with proprietary code,
| is to push out some code as open source, try to set a standard, and then
| hold back something better for those with more money than time.
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| This is the test of the market. Where are the start-ups coming from, where
| are the new ideas coming from, where are the new jobs being created?
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| It's in open source.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=770
Related writeup:
Linux represents future of computer systems
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| Given these advantages, Linux can't help but become more and more common.
| As a result, it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with Linux.
| Fortunately, this is easy and, unlike Windows or Macintosh, free.
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http://www.reflector-online.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/08/29/44f3a0c2dfbfc
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