Open Source Odds and Sods: Sightings from the Ecosystem
A number of interesting events have happened this week in the heady whirl that is open source that I thought deserved further examination; especially since the conventional wisdom regarding their meaning is, in my view, misplaced. All of them have an entertaining aspect as well, making for an enjoyable tour through the topics.
Open Source Odds and Sods #1: Maybe desktop Linux isn't moribund, after all. Dell, in its attempt to get back to being an innovator in terms of customer service and satisfaction, opened up a request page where people could write up what products they'd lke to see Dell release. Dell went further and allowed people to vote, Digg-style, about which of the requested products they'd most like to see.
The big surprise: the number one most requested and voted item was -- pre-loaded Linux on Dell PCs.
Open Source Odds and Sods #2: Maybe Bill Gates was right when he called open source "communist"Free software advocate Richard Stallman was in Havana last week and spoke at the International Conference on Communications and Technology. Host nation Cuba announced that, along with Venezuela, it would move away from Microsoft Windows and begin using Linux.
Open Source Odds and Sods #3: Linus Torvalds goes off against Gnome -- again.
Get over it. There is no can't-we-all-just-get-along "spirit of open source."
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