Government/corporate project declares plan to promote OSS within the EU
An ambitious initiative that aims to bring open source software to a new level in Europe hopes to make competition with US companies more interesting. QualiPSo is a four-year project partly funded by...
View ArticleTop 10 Responses to Why Should I Use Linux? - A Linux Evangelists’ Reference
If you’re a Linux enthusiast like me, you’ve probably tried to convert a few people over to Linux from another operating system. Even though you succeed many times, there are always a few ‘geniuses’...
View Article5 Things YOU Can Do to Help Open Source
I know a lot of people who use open source every day, from OpenOffice to the GIMP and Linux, open source has something for everyone. Recently I was asked how could someone give back to the developers...
View ArticleHelp Spread Linux… Don’t Preach It!
What does using Linux mean to you? Do you simply use it because it works best for you? While at its heart Linux itself, is nothing more than a software kernel, to many people it is much more. It is a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Appoints Robert Duffner to Fight Freedom and Harm GNU/Linux
A new Microsoft guy, Robert Duffner, is 'marketed' to the press where he promotes open source just on Windows
View ArticleThe Wrong Way To Sell Linux
It seems that anymore all we hear about Linux and FOSS is it's free of cost, and that desktop Linux is just as good as Windows because it's all pointy-clicky and you don't have to touch the nasty...
View ArticleAnother Reason to Run GNU/Linux...
...And a pretty important one: "The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant." So why might...
View ArticleLinux is not good for you…
A friend of mine was telling me how she went to buy a new computer, asked to have Linux on it, and was told “Linux is not good for you at home” and that she shouldn’t worry, they’ll just install her...
View ArticleSelling open source to the powers-that-be
The idea of thinking up a hypothetical situation and then asking a group of qualified panellists to visualise how each would react to it is nothing new.
View ArticleLinux, It Does a Body Good: Approachable Promotion Efforts
Remember the IBM "Peace, Love, Linux" campaign? I remember seeing Tux's smiling face on taxi cab billboards (and spray painted on sidewalks) all over Boston. I can't discount that the ad's approach and...
View ArticleIntroducing pointy-haired bosses to FOSS
Mike Dailey tries to convince us gave me the impression that moving to Linux is an all-or-nothing proposal. That's plain ridiculous. An undertaking of that scale is a gigantic project, which no CIO...
View ArticleAnnouncing the “We’re Linux” video contest finalists
The journey that begin during last football season with the realization that Microsoft paid Jerry Seinfeld $10 million for his appearance in their ads is almost over. The judging for the We’re Linux...
View ArticleMicrosoft Pays Ziff Davis to Promote Windows Vista
Ziff Davis, a supposedly objective publisher, is publicly promoting Microsoft products for the company's dollars
View ArticleChinese and Latvian Governments Promote Free(dom) Software and GNU/Linux
China subsidises adoption of GNU/Linux and AFP has published the report "cash-strapped Latvia mulls switching from Microsoft"
View ArticleHow to Sell Linux to Schools- Part 2
Building on the last post, I welcome the opportunity to share some of my experiences with deploying Linux in schools. It is a very broad topic however I will stay with the previous outline. First of...
View ArticleGovernment/corporate project declares plan to promote OSS within the EU
An ambitious initiative that aims to bring open source software to a new level in Europe hopes to make competition with US companies more interesting. QualiPSo is a four-year project partly funded by...
View ArticleTop 10 Responses to Why Should I Use Linux? - A Linux Evangelists’ Reference
If you’re a Linux enthusiast like me, you’ve probably tried to convert a few people over to Linux from another operating system. Even though you succeed many times, there are always a few ‘geniuses’...
View Article5 Things YOU Can Do to Help Open Source
I know a lot of people who use open source every day, from OpenOffice to the GIMP and Linux, open source has something for everyone. Recently I was asked how could someone give back to the developers...
View ArticleHelp Spread Linux… Don’t Preach It!
What does using Linux mean to you? Do you simply use it because it works best for you? While at its heart Linux itself, is nothing more than a software kernel, to many people it is much more. It is a...
View ArticleMicrosoft Appoints Robert Duffner to Fight Freedom and Harm GNU/Linux
A new Microsoft guy, Robert Duffner, is 'marketed' to the press where he promotes open source just on Windows
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