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Current Newswire: Editor's Note: Making Multi-Channel Firewire Music With Linux Amaya: A Simple, Yet Useful Alternative to Dreamweaver Windows 7 Sales Up, But is it Really a Hit? Over clocking intel i7 on a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme Novell cuts 3 percent of its workforce, plus benefits SECURITY: Debunking the Growing Use of Misleading Claims and False Truisms in Cybersecurity Mavizen's 130 MPH TTX02 Electric Motorcycle Runs on Linux October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux Linux-Kongress 2009: New filesystems, optimised programming Google privacy controls: Most people won't care Server Support Specialist I The Computer Merchant, Ltd US-OK-Oklahoma City Post A Job | Post A Resume SearchEnterpriseLinux: Golden's Rules: Open Source--A Glimpse of Things to Come Sep 2, 2004, 23 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (8303 reads) (Other stories by Bernard Golden) "I've got a confession. While preparing for my new series of SearchEnterpriseLinux.com columns on how to take advantage of enterprise-ready open source software, I got distracted. Like many people, I spent two weeks glued to my television watching the Olympics. What an event! From awesome achievements (Michael Phelps' 8 medals) to bitter disappointments (favorite Paula Radcliffe dropping out of the women's marathon) to the simply bizarre (a defrocked Irish priest attacking the lead men's marathon runner), I was riveted. It was an opportunity to see something rare: humans gathered from all parts of the planet striving to accomplish their best. "In the midst of all this, something gave me pause, and yes, it's related to open source..." Complete Story Related Stories: Groklaw: Patents--Why Free/Open Source Software Might Have Less to Fear than Non-Free Software(Sep 01, 2004) eWeek: Linux Doesn't Make Sense for Desktops(Sep 01, 2004) Tonight Live: Is Longhorn The Windows of Opportunity for Open Source?(Aug 31, 2004) NewsForge: Will Free Software Kill Shareware?(Aug 31, 2004) No talkbacks posted.   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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