[dundee] Deliver us from Microsoft

[azmodie]

February 1st, 2008

*Stephen Fry introduces the open source platform that will see off Windows.*

Column "Dork Talk" published on Saturday February 2nd 2008 in The
Guardian<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/02/opensource.stephenfry>
"Deliver us from Microsoft" - The Guardian headline

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.

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.

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...
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intresting opinion

azmodie
-- 
Umbrella Corporation :-
"They are the fear within all of that there is a company. The Corporation
controlling everything that is Umbrella.
A combination of Microsoft and the US Military. At some level there is a
board of directors who meet once a
month and decide all of our fates."
-- Jeremy Bolt - Producer - Resident Evil : Apocalypse
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