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Microsoft: we were wrong about open source

The Verge

Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source. Microsoft president Brad Smith now believes the company was wrong about open source.

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Ubuntu open week

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu.

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back.

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Alternatives to MySQL

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering open source software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.

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Why all (major) operating systems suck

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Why Linux (in my case Ubuntu) sucks: I have to go through arcane (and luckily for me, fairly painless) procedures to get simple things to work ( like plugging a headset with a mic into my jack! ). And it takes FOREVER to boot, even with Soluto. Internet Explorer. Hardware manufacturers ignore Linux for the most part.

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Happy Birthday, Gutsy Gibbon!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

October 18, 2007 Ubuntu Linux has a new release, version 7.10, called “ Gutsy Gibbon.&# (Really I don’t know where these names come from!) It seems that with Ubuntu, Linux is getting closer and closer to being a completely viable and usable desktop for everyone. { Be Helpful.

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Giving up, a little

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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