<small>February 1st, 2008 </small>
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<p><b>Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows.</b></p>
<p>Column "Dork Talk" published on Saturday February 2nd 2008 in <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/02/opensource.stephenfry">The Guardian</a><br>
"Deliver us from Microsoft" - The Guardian headline</p>
<p>In recent weeks I have banged on about Open Source, expending two
articles on Firefox alone. Open Source applications make their code
available to everyone. Disagreements and rabid balkanisation within the
Open Source community aside, for our purposes the term might as well
refer to free software whose licence allows you to share the source
code, alter it, use it, do with it what you will.</p>
<p>The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux.
I shan't burden you with too much detail, I'll just make the outrageous
claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two
within the next five years and that your life will be better and
happier as a result.</p>
<p>I am writing this article on a kind of mini John the Baptist, a
system that prepares the way of the software saviour whose coming will
deliver the... <br>
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<br>azmodie<br>-- <br>Umbrella Corporation :-<br>"They are the fear within all of that there is a company. The Corporation controlling everything that is Umbrella.<br>A combination of Microsoft and the US Military. At some level there is a board of directors who meet once a<br>
month and decide all of our fates."<br>-- Jeremy Bolt - Producer - Resident Evil : Apocalypse