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Category Archives: Freedom
Windows Vista Makes an Impact
Today, Slashdot posted an entry about Window’s 89.6% market share. According to the real article:
Windows’ share shows no sign of stopping its slow slide; in the past 12 months, Microsoft’s market share has fallen from 91.79%, a decrease of …
Posted in Freedom, Linux
Tagged Apple, average joe, Columbus, desktop environment, firefox, FLOSS, free software, Freedom, Linux, long, market share, Microsoft, MSIE, open source, Slashdot, stranglehold, ubuntu, Vista, Windows
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My Elevator Pitch
Today, Planet Fedora had JonRob’s post that asks the question, “What is your elevator pitch for using free software?”
I’ve got three reasons, ranked in order of importance:
Absolute freedom to do what I want
Free software is high quality
Its free as …
Posted in Freedom, Linux
Tagged elevators, fedora, FLOSS, free software, Freedom, Rant
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xkcd on DRM
xkcd was just updated, and it explains the DRM problem pretty nicely. Hopefully a lot of the readers who read xkcd will be finally enlightened.
In a related note, I’m gonna sort out my DRM papers I wrote for classes …
