Links 15/06/2008: Sabayon Linux 3.5 Coming Soon, GNU/Linux for Education Explained
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-15 21:28:32 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-15 21:33:22 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Linux Threatens Microsoft Monopoly Overseas
- Sabayon Linux 3.5 Official Release: here we come
After months and months and months of hard work, I am happy to say that Sabayon Linux 3.5 final will enter the final beta testing stage within 48 hours and will stay there for a couple of weeks.
- In Defense of a Linux Education
The difference between learning how to use a new tool and learning a new concept is the same difference between receiving training and gaining an education. How many times have you heard (or said) that algebra and history are not “useful” in “real life”?
- Microsoft, the Bully
Microsoft is sending letters to school districts insisting on audits to make sure they are paying for all the licenses they should be.
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However, along with that threatening letter is a sales brochure for a new license program from MS: pay us money for every PC in the district capable of running Windows and pay for it every year. Over and over again. Every year.
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But then I think…Linux is free.
Linux will never threaten you.
Linux will never ask you for money.
Linux will never try and revoke your ability to use it.
Linux will never ask you to not share.
Linux encourages you to give back and make things better and share that better with others.
Linux has a nice soft fluffy mascot.
Linux loves children.
- Charging for GNU/Linux is not the answer
Another danger of getting into the pricing bun-fight is that it is clearly Microsoft territory. They would probably love it if free software started to try and compete on their terms. The scary part of free software for Microsoft is that it doesn’t compete on their terms — it tells users that those terms are wrong and unfair and it offers an entirely different approach.
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- Why Arrington is Wrong about Yahoo!-Google Deal
3. The real source of my argument for this position, which you linked to in your piece, but I'll point to again here, is that Web 2.0, the internet operating system we're building, is much bigger than search. Search is an incredibly powerful subsystem of that OS, but it is just a subsystem. There is lots of competition across the system as a whole, and we're a LONG way from the concentration of power that represents monopoly when we take that into consideration.
4. The landscape is changing so fast. To take only one axis, consider mobile. Google doesn't dominate mobile/local search. That's a whole new game.... Again, there's lots of competition.
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