Why wait?
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| Most distros have a new release every six months to one year. In six years,
| you could finally be getting a glimpse of the newest Windows operating
| system, or better yet you could be using a Linux distro that's several
| generations ahead of its competition.
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http://linuxhow2.com/News/Why_wait.html
How do I love KDE? Let me count the ways.
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| No, I'm not actually going to count, but it was the first title that popped
| into my head and if I've learned anything about the creative process, it's
| that your first instinct is usually the best.
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http://menpro.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-do-i-love-kde-let-me-count-ways.html
Related (Linux inevitability):
Fear of the Dark
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| What can Microsoft really do?
|
| In short - it can delay the domination of GNU/Linux on the market and nothing
| more. I have no idea how much time will that take. Five, fifteen, fifty
| years? Microsoft’s “actions” are bothersome, however, it does not change the
| fact that GNU/Linux is generally favored by the Big Business. Have a look
| around: supercomputers, film industry, academic circles, WWW servers,
| embedded systems, Dell, Lenovo or IBM’s actions. GNU/Linux (I am referring
| here more to the phenomenon rather than to a particular product) is
| ubiquitous and used commonly by companies which could paradoxically afford a
| commercial solution (Google for example).
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http://polishlinux.org/gnu/fear-of-the-dark/
The inevitability of free software
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| Is software a product or a utility? Free software proponents say it's as
| critical to economic progress as fresh drinking water.
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http://innovations.ziffdavis.com/2007/09/the_inevitability_of_free_soft.html
2010: The year of the Linux Desktop
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| Given that, as per Wikipedia, “Moore’s Law is the empirical
| observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors on an
| integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24
| months.” couldn’t that alternately mean that computers might drop in
| price with the same RAM?
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http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/
IBM SVP Steve Mills: Open Source Is Inevitable
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| "The [free] WebSphere Community Edition conforms to the Apache Geronimo
| standard, and we download more than 20,000 copies a week -- a week! The
| majority of users don't buy a maintenance contract from us. They are just
| happy to get a copy and do what they do, and they don't have to tell us
| what they are doing."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57884.html
Linux is Poised to Take Over the World
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| One of the biggest complaints I hear from computer users is how
| quickly their computers are made obsolete, either by the introduction
| of new software, demanding faster processors, more memory and better
| video cards, or else a new version of an operating system, demanding
| the same things. Linux, because of so many varieties, can be made
| into a perfect fit for almost any computer, no matter how old.
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/230070/linux_is_poised_to_take_over_the_world.html
Towards a complete Free Software market
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| The point being missed here is that these people have already gone
| through quite a good deal of inconvenience with Microsoft Windows,
| an inconvenience which actually very likely outways the inconvenience
| that is anticipated with a Free Software box. What is this
| inconvenience? Do we really need a list? Aren't the price of
| additional applications they have to buy *after* they bought
| the computer, the DRM restrictions dictating how they use their
| computer, the instability and insecurity caused by the proprietary
| hidden architecture of the system and the resulting blue screens
| of death, enough??
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http://www.libervis.com/article/towards_a_complete_free_software_market
CollabNet Bonds Linux Vendors
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| "Microsoft has released a few open source projects, but they still
| have a concern that it's threatening to their revenue stream."
|
| -Brian Behlendorf,
|
| CollabNet
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http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21349&hed=CollabNet+Bonds+Linux+Vendors
Change is maddeningly inevitable
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| To broaden or not broaden the GNU/Linux user base. This topic has
| generated a ton of discussion and emotion within the community.
| Whatever your particular stance, one thing is guaranteed. Change!
| And human beings are typically adverse to Change!
|
| [...]
|
| More and more people are drawn to GNU/Linux and free software in
| order to access and participate in our online, global culture.
| The user base is ALREADY broadening.
|
| Second, I believe the GNU/Linux and free software community has
| an ethical responsibility to expand the user base. We must take
| advantage of the decreasing hardware costs coupled with free
| software to make computing technologies more available to poorer
| nations/individuals. Imagine the boost some schools could receive
| with the gift of a single computer loaded with KDE's Edutainment
| package and internet access to Wikipedia.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/change_is_maddeningly_inevitable
Open source makes inroads
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| Software makers are looking to open up new markets with low-cost offerings
| for both well-established businesses and countries starting from scratch.
|
| Sun's plan for open-source chips bears fruit
|
| Red Hat releases Xen-enabled Linux beta
|
| Millionaire cosmonaut takes on Microsoft
|
| Wikipedia's list of open-source games
|
| SGI's Unix variant fading into history
|
| Photos: Greenphone taps Linux know-how
|
| FreeDOS finally hits 1.0 milestone
|
| German GPL defender claims legal victory
|
| South Korea to redraw its maps with open source
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http://news.com.com/2009-7344_3-6114265.html
As Mobile Phones Grow More Complex, Carriers Insist on Fewer Operating
Systems
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| Fabrizio Capobianco, chief executive of Funambol, an open-source
| software company based in Redwood City, Calif., that has developed a
| highly popular e-mail program for mobile devices, said, "I don't
| see convergence of the operating systems happening anytime soon."
|
| Citing Apple's new phone, Mr. Capobianco, who began as a
| technology entrepreneur in Italy, added, "Vodafone is trying to
| standardize by going with three operating systems, but now the
| iPhone is coming, so they will have to have at least four."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/technology/12wireless.html?ex=1331352000&en=57357e1cb48e68aa&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
http://tinyurl.com/36jcsk
I predict a DRM riot
,----[ Quote ]
| DRM is, it seems, doomed to fail in the short term. There is just no
| way around the fact that for now keys will always get cracked and
| when they do that crack will always find its way into the public
| domain. Try to stop it, as Digg inadvertently discovered, and you
| will have a full scale Internet riot on your hands.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/editorial-blogs/davey-winder/294132/i-predict-a-drm-riot.thtml
Digital World: The dollars and sense of Linux migration
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| And yet, I really do believe that the Linux revolution (or maybe
| evolution) is inevitable. Necessity is the mother of invention,
| as they say, and as users try to upgrade to Windows Vista and
| experience the "benefits" of upgrading most of them didn't
| count on, I think at least some of them will be amenable to
| considering Linux.
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152812068&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://tinyurl.com/37j3ok
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