As we advance beyond the 21st century, the idea of freedom might sound cliché. I mean, there is freedom, and there is freedom, and there is freedom. Recently, I’ve been more and more interested about the third in the list, as in, “Freedom of information.” In February of this year I bought an Acer laptop with Windows Vista installed on it. Best Buy didn’t have a single laptop available without Windows Vista. Soon after buying it, I turned off everything that made Windows Vista an upgrade from Windows. I removed Norton, deactivated the annoying, “Let me help ya massa,” Vista Security features, installed some of my favorite open source software, and have been quite happy running Windows not-really-Vista for the last 6 months.
I love open source software. Commercial software has it’s place, but I believe even Adam Smith would appreciate the efforts made by Open Source software development groups.
I’ve decided to run a short series of articles on my favorite open source software. Maybe it will be useful to you, at least I hope it will be useful to you.
Stay tuned. The first one = How to kick Microsoft off of your Microsoft.