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In a shocking turn of events, Microsoft has decided to release its new operating system as Free Software under the GNU General Public License!
When asked for comments, CEO Steve Ballmer merely shouted “free hackers, free hackers, free hackers, free hackers,” and finished up with his trademark squeal. There is a remix of the famous [...]

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I don’t know if you all pay attention to these statistics like I do, but it’s a lot of fun. As of the last time awstats ran on my web host, I had the following statistics:
OS Stats:

OS
Total Users
Percentage

Linux
633
54.1%

Windows
463
39.6%

Macintosh
53
4.5%

Unknown
15
1.2%

Sun Solaris
4
0.3%

FreeBSD
1
0%

Browser stats:

Browsers
Hits
Percent

Firefox
726
62.1%

Konqueror
166
14.2%

MS Internet Explorer
157
13.4%

Mozilla
59
5%

Opera
24
2%

Safari
22
1.8%

Unknown
8
0.6%

Camino
5
0.4%

MultiZilla
1
0%

Netscape
1
0%

This tells me a few things:

There are a lot of super-cool free software [...]

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WOW! No sooner then I posted my last article than I saw this video.
So evidently Oracle, the world’s most popular and most expensive proprietary DBMS, is considered a partner in the “road away from proprietaryville.” Wow. I had no I idea that Oracle was Free Software. I think this video really [...]

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I just finished reading this article (here) about Dell letting on that they are going to bundle Free Software in an OEM fashion. I say to myself “wow.” Why do I say wow though? Is it because I think that they’ve bent to the pressure? Is it because I think that [...]

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Okay, so I’m still a dog nut. But now I’m a dog nut… WITH PICTURES! I insist that you view the photos of my dog post haste. They can be found on the left nav menu under the “Pages” item named “Penguin.”
Or you could click here.
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Okay, so my wife and I just adopted a gorgeous little doggie from the Shampoo-Banana Humane society. She’s a pit-mix and about 6 months old. She’s very playful, and best of all, her name is “Penguin.”
You heard that correctly. manchicken is getting a dog named Penguin. Oh HELL yeah. Here’s [...]

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Wow, so tomorrow the movers will load the truck, and we’ll be moving down to Champaign from Chicago. What a bitter-sweet move…
There are a few things I’m going to miss about Chicago. One of those things is the fantastic church that I’ve been a part of for years. Another is the community [...]

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Okay, so this is going to be a short tirade. Sun Microsystems, here’s a question… if you’re so interested in releasing free and “open source” software, then why the heck do you require registration to access it? I understand asking for address information and checking for automated bots on the disc request form, [...]

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Wow, it’s not very often that you see FSF really try to make a business case like they did yesterday. Man was I really impressed with the case laid out, and I really think it will help.
The purpose of this appeal it seems is to persuade hardware vendors to serve our Free Software community [...]

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So I just read an article about how Steve Ballmer and Microsoft are blaming lacking Vista sales on people who are sharing and selling copies they’ve made. As someone who’s seen Vista in action, I think it may have more to do with Vista being a poor product, and the licensing of Vista being [...]

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