jrobertson
03-02-08, 12:29 AM
Here's the article link (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/02/opensource.stephenfry) from today's The Guardian, Technology section.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/02/opensource.stephenfry
In recent weeks I have banged on about Open Source, expending two articles on Firefox alone. Open Source applications make their code available to everyone. Disagreements and rabid balkanisation within the Open Source community aside, for our purposes the term might as well refer to free software whose licence allows you to share the source code, alter it, use it, do with it what you will.
The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan't burden you with too much detail, I'll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result.
I started using Open Source software because I wanted to see if the grass was actually greener on the other side, and I have to say it's not only greener it's organic too :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/02/opensource.stephenfry
In recent weeks I have banged on about Open Source, expending two articles on Firefox alone. Open Source applications make their code available to everyone. Disagreements and rabid balkanisation within the Open Source community aside, for our purposes the term might as well refer to free software whose licence allows you to share the source code, alter it, use it, do with it what you will.
The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan't burden you with too much detail, I'll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result.
I started using Open Source software because I wanted to see if the grass was actually greener on the other side, and I have to say it's not only greener it's organic too :)