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American Surveyor: Free Open Source Software: Linux

[ Thanks to Joel
Leininger
for this link. ]

“In the first part of this three-part series on desktop software
(‘Current Problems in Desktop Computer Usage,’ June 2006
[sic]), I concentrated largely on the issue of open data
standards and why I believe that it is desirable to move towards
open standards. A formidable problem was noted–that of viruses,
spyware, and other malicious software found running on our
computers without our prior knowledge or approval. In this issue
and the next, I will describe some ‘new’ software which has great
potential to mitigate some of the computational problems we
face…”

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