There was a time when I thought the Linux desktop was going to take a market share at least equal to Apple’s. Maybe even 5% or 10% of the total desktop market. I had high hopes that the One Laptop Per Child Initiative would put Linux laptops in the hands of impressionable young minds who [...]

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Bill Gates steps down as the Chairman of Microsoft on July 1st to transition to full time philanthropic efforts with the Gates Foundation. However, I wonder how effective Bill will be other than writing checks. You see Bill’s never played well with others.

Microsoft v. United States

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Microsoft v. Sun

At a speech [...]

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Today is EarthDay (visit the open source Drupal-powered website for details from the Earth Day Network). In September 1969, at a conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson announced that in the spring of 1970 there would be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on the environment. Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to [...]

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I have been watching the Linux laptop market for a while now. I used Linux on a Dell for over six years and was reasonably happy until I discovered EVDO. There simply wasn’t good support for the cards so I switched to Mac OS X.
I got a little excited over the OLPC  very cool [...]

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If you are interested in open source content management systems, whether it’s Joomla! or Drupal or WordPress or Typo3 or Plone, this is a place you can talk about it. If you are interested in open source productivity tools, like Open Office, this is a good place to be. If you are interested in talking [...]

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