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Gobuntu: A Truly Free Linux Distro or a Free Drivers Experiment?

Open Source
November 9, 2007

“It has nothing whatsoever to do with Freedom,” argues one of Gobuntu’s contributors. The contributor, Keith G. Robertson-Turner, is a longtime, passionate advocate of free software. Before joining Gobuntu, he was among the first package maintainers on the Fedora project. Yet recently he opted to leave the Gobuntu project after what he sees as continued […]

Interview With Pamela Jones, Editor of Groklaw

Open Source
November 2, 2007

When Pamela Jones, better known as PJ, started Groklaw, a Web site devoted to covering and explaining legal cases of interest to the Free Software and Open Source communities, she preferred to remain anonymous and showed no desire to become well-known. Groklaw nevertheless became extremely popular very quickly, and it soon established itself as the […]

The Role and Value of Truly Free Linux Distributions

Open Source
October 22, 2007

As GNU/Linux becomes more popular, the motives behind its inceptions are often forgotten. Linux is a free operating system, but its broadening userbase perceives this freedom as pertaining to cost, not rights and liberty. It’s important to step back and remind ourselves of the purpose and importance of distributions which try to make a difference, […]

Migrating to Linux in the Enterprise Using Vendor-independent Formats

Open Source
July 16, 2007

An impulsive and immediate migration to Linux can sometimes lead to disappointment. Ambitious businesses are sometimes led to believe that their data can merely be be dumped from one platform onto another, but the reality is a little more complex than this. In order for a migration to be successful, one needs to be familiar […]

Can Linux Adoption Ever be Accurately Gauged?

Open Source
July 9, 2007

Determining usage and growth of Free software has always been a challenge. For over a decade, arguments have been held – sometimes flamewars – whose central point was the usage level of software that is freely distributed. While market share can be estimated based on sales numbers, Free software usually replaces existing software that is proprietary, […]

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