“In May of 2007 I wrote a post called Open Source and Microsoft
Free. Little did I know that this post would show up on Digg,
Slashdot, Craigslist, and several other popular web sites and
become a platform for both the Linux and Microsoft camps to wage
yet another flame war.“This whole ‘Microsoft free’ experiment started when a colleague
of mine challenged me to eat my own dog food after reading many of
my posts about my dabbling with open source technologies. The next
day, after a few blue screens of death and various issues with
Outlook, I grabbed a Ubuntu CD and installed it on my laptop….at
work! From that day forward, I have not used a single Microsoft
product at work. It has been one year now and I have survived with
Thunderbird and Evolution, Open Office, Firefox, and many other
open source replacements for Microsoft products…”
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
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