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Nice rebuttal to fear-mongering article about Open Source software.

Laughing Muse has a really well-written rebuttal to a recent column on ZDNet that claimed using Open Source software was a bad idea.

Now, I’m no champion of Open Source software as the end-all, be-all of anything and I don’t hold any illusions about it bringing about the ultimate downfall of Microsoft or Oracle or any of the other major companies, but I do think it’s a pretty nifty idea. I could go into a lengthy dissertation about it, but I’ll save it for another time as I need to get my butt to work this morning. Still, check out Muse’s little rant as it pretty much says what I would say anyway, which is why I linked it. So there.

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Laughing Muse Posted on 06/11/2002 at 10:59 AM

Thanks, Les! I was a little concerned about making my points in that one - it kind of runs counter to what most people are used to hearing in these bouts of textual harrassment.

Here’s another really good rebuttal. It takes down Microsof- ah, I mean, the ADTI’s paper point by point. Excellent stuff.

Dana Posted on 06/23/2002 at 10:35 PM

Heh.  My Web site host uses Unix servers and open source software.  The ONLY concession they make where Microsoft is concerned is they will allow FrontPage extensions to be installed on a user’s account.

Works for me… even if I am on a Windows system at home.  Ain’t geek enough to use another OS yet, I’m afraid.

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