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Microsoft Finally Acknowledges That Open Source is Mainstream Linux Today Wed, 10/01/2008 - 03:35 The Open Road: "Microsoft just announced the obvious: open source is an increasingly critical (and common) component of software today, including proprietary software.

As it turns out Stallman doesn’t like web applications, he doesn’t like them at all and says that using GMail and its kind is “worse than stupidity” and just as bad as proprietary software.

Image via Wikipedia Are Open Source and Cloud Computing anachronistic enemies? You’d think so, if you read GNU creator Richard Stallman’s interview in The Guardian: Cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.

Read on to learn How this guy made $14,923.27 in 2 Weeks… on autopilot… How he Gamed Google for TONS of *Free* Clicks using Push-Button software… And Built A List of 711,569 Targeted, Hungry, Buyers… In Just 58 Days… Hey, Recently I got a quote from Eric Rockefeller that went something like this:

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting story on Honda’s flexible manufacturing strategy, and how it’s helping the company to stay ahead in a bruising economy. Today, CIOs should be scratching their heads to figure out how Honda’s manufacturing excellence can be applied to their IT operations.

I remember first hearing about Linus Travolds back in the early 90s and I thought Linux was going to be a hit in year 2000. Well, it turns out I was right, just about 10 years early.  You have to admit, Linux is really taking over the world right now with web servers (including this one) and Eee PCs and other laptops that come loaded with Linux.

I remember first hearing about Linus Travolds back in the early 90s and I thought Linux was going to be a hit in year 2000. Well, it turns out I was right, just about 10 years early.  You have to admit, Linux is really taking over the world right now with web servers (including this one) and Eee PCs and other laptops that come loaded with Linux.

What was once (and still is) one of the best Linux distros, Ubuntu, has now starting to swirl down to the bottom of the distro ladder.

[...] EuroparlTV seems to work only for users of either Adobe’s proprietary Flash player (via the proprietary Adobe Flash file format) or users of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player (via the proprietary WMV file format). What this means to an open web, that is usable for everyone should be clear.

Concerns over licensing are not the preserve of a few whacko freetards, but of ordinary users who are tired of having the thumbscrews put on them by proprietary software companies.