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Current Newswire: Droid's Android 2.1 Update Halted Laptops sit idle... Tech Comics: "Social Networking vs. Life" Don't trust that Web Address! 4K-sector drives and Linux The New Open Source Business Model Still Relies on Closed Source Microsoft says its contentious relationship with open source is changing Linux alternatives for the iPad - and the future of netbooks, tablets and smartbooks Opera: 'Dramatic' rise since Microsoft's ballot page What's been going on with Ardour? Financial Application Engineer (IL) Next Step Systems US-IL-Chicago Post A Job | Post A Resume Free Software Magazine: Moving to Freedom, One Step at a Time Sep 13, 2006, 00 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (3235 reads) (Other stories by Scott Carpenter) "Time to get on with the move. Giving up Windows is like kicking a drug habit. It's easier to take the path of least resistance and keep using. If quitting proprietary software was a twelve step program--although, let's not push the analogy too far--maybe after admitting we were powerless over our proprietary programs, coming to believe that a Higher Power could restore us to Freedom, and so on and so forth, maybe we'd... make a searching and fearless inventory of cross-platform free programs we could run on Windows first so that a new operating system wouldn't be entirely alien when we finally sobered up and moved to GNU/Linux? "Or something like that..." Complete Story Related Stories: Seopher: Why Linux Needs to Bite the Bullet and Become More Like Windows(Aug 02, 2006) CertCities: What the Linux World REALLY Needs...(Jul 21, 2006) Intelligent Remarks: Caution Has Been Thrown...(Jun 03, 2006) Linux-Watch: Microsoft Set to Attack Linux with Patents?(Mar 31, 2006) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Wrong.....    da Sep 13, 2006, 14:29:15     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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