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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 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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I don’t know about you all, but I’m starting to get really excited and concerned all at the same time about all of this Sun going for Free Software talk. I’m excited because it would be the first time a major corporation moved its flagship products into Free Software and still managed to make [...]

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Wow. So GNU/Linux is just another product to some people. I find that concerning. Torvalds didn’t write it to be a product, Stallman didn’t write the compiler to be a product, and I don’t think the KDE or GNOME folks did it for that reason either. I know I certainly don’t [...]

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Okay, so I know I’m late. Sorry ’bout that. My wife gave me this new game and with that and work and hacking and cool videos that I’ve been blogging I’ve neglected you. I’m a naughty chicken. Can you ever forgive me? Aww, thanks, you’re a sweetie. Let me [...]

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