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Free Software
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| Like nearly everyone else these days, I use computers to write, read email,
| browse the web, store music and photos, and generally organize my life.
| Unlike most people, I'm using a free operating system, rather than
| Microsoft's Windows/Vista, or Apple's Mac OS. Specifically, I'm using Ubuntu,
| a popular distribution of GNU/Linux.
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| Ubuntu is but one of many free software distributions. Distrowatch lists 10
| major and more than 100 minor Linux and free BSD distributions, many of which
| are minor remixes of a handful of the major distributions.
|
| I would encourage others to think about migrating to Linux. It's now possible
| to buy laptops from Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed, or to install Linux on
| one of your computers, either as the sole operating system, or as one that
| co-exists with Windows or the Mac OS.
|
| Why would anyone try Linux? Well, it does put some fun back into computing,
| and the newer distributions are both powerful and elegant, with eye candy,
| cool programs, a very good usability. There's more, however. Linux is truly
| a "free" operating system, with an emphasis on freedom. It is created by and
| for users, and as a platform, it creates a different relationship between the
| users and the Internet than do the Microsoft or Apple commercial
| alternatives. It's also an important experiment in how information
| technologies are created and managed, and the success of the experiment
| depends somewhat on the ability to attract users.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/free-software_b_126303.html
Recent:
Linux: Who got it right, who got it very wrong?
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| Open-source software, once derided as the unsupportable and unreliable work
| of hobbyists, has secured itself a place at the table of many a large
| enterprise, although in ways that were different than many expected even five
| years ago.
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| By promoting a culture of transparency and forcing independent software
| vendors and service providers to add value in new ways, open source can be
| lauded for shaking up an industry that was ripe for a change. Instead of
| thinking in terms of market domination and customer lock-in, the industry is
| now prepared to work for its lunch — and to respect the customers' desire for
| a better option, whether it's open source or otherwise.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Special-Report-Linux-Who-got-it-right-who-got-it-very-wrong-/0,139023769,339288936,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5vslb8
PC deal could save public sector billions
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| Suffolk told Gartner, “I think we have fundamentally failed on a worldwide
| basis as an IT industry to understand the cost of what we do. And I roundly
| blame Gartner for this, because you guys are the ones who come up with TCO
| [total cost of ownership] benchmarking. It has become a self-fulfilling
| prophecy.
|
| “So, I go out and I pick boring desktop infrastructure. What price do you
| think the suppliers broadly pitch? You will not be shocked to know that it is
| somewhere around the Gartner TCO benchmark.”
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/31/230047/pc-deal-could-save-public-sector-billions.htm
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