What I Learned using Linux over the last 10 years
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| I started using Linux as my primary desktop and operating system in 1998.
| After brief flirtations with FVWM 95 and Enlightenment, I settle on Gnome
| (with it’s various WMs over the years ) and Redhat/Fedora (until switching to
| Ubuntu last fall ).
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| 1. My computer is mine. I didn’t license or borrow it from an OS vendor. I
| don’t want to ask permission to install or uninstall software on it,
| including the operating system. If I upgrade or swap out parts, I don’t
| have to justify it to anyone ( except maybe the Mrs. if it’s a bit
| pricey ).
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http://www.91courtstreet.net/wordpress/2008/01/25/what-i-learned-using-linux-over-the-last-10-years/
The Essence of Choice
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| I think that educating people into what choice is, is an important first step
| into freeing them to exercise that choice. If a person doesn't know they're
| free, how can they exercise their freedom? It's up to use to gather all our
| facts and educate the huddled masses of the world, starting with friends and
| family, our fellow co-workers, and then out to our community at large.
| Education will bring truth, and the truth will free them to choose, and that
| choice will ultimately bring them a digital freedom they have long desired,
| but did not even know existed.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=370
Yesterday:
Speeding Up Free Software Adoption: External and Internal Routes to Success
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| Striking a balance between mindsets might be a factor on which the success of
| Free software is hinged. Put simply, a struggle against
| so-called 'pragmatism' may have been one of the greatest barriers to wider
| adoption of Free software.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3724136
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