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Bill Gates Steps Down, as Tech Users Reflect
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| Many computer users have eagerly sought what they consider a more reliable,
| secure, unambiguous operating system for their personal computers. This has
| resulted in a surge of popularity in certain GNU/Linux OSs. As an interesting
| example of this growing trend, one could compare the number of uploaders and
| downloaders ("seeders" and "leechers") of a popular GNU/Linux OS (eg. Ubuntu)
| on a popular peer-to-peer bittorrent site with a popular piece of media
| available on such a web site. The ratio of GNU/Linux OS to popular media is
| significant (20 to 50 times more). This gives an adequate idea of how quickly
| GNU/Linux use is increasing.
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00039.htm
Yesterday:
It's not the Gates, it's the bars
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| To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What
| really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of
| restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on
| its customers.
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| [...]
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| But Gates didn't invent proprietary software, and thousands of other
| companies do the same thing. It's wrong, no matter who does it.
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| Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and the rest, offer you software that gives them
| power over you. A change in executives or companies is not important. What we
| need to change is this system.
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| That's what the free software movement is all about. "Free" refers to
| freedom: we write and publish software that users are free to share and
| modify.
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| We do this systematically, for freedom's sake; some of us paid, many as
| volunteers. We already have complete free operating systems, including
| GNU/Linux.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7487060.stm
Recent:
Deploying KDE to 52 million young people
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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html
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