An unnamed reader points out a CBC report discussing a request from the Canadian dominion for wisdom about open source systems program and free proprietary software. Evan Leibovitch, an advocate for open source, says the government's interest was spurred by a desire to reduce expenditures during the...

Exmoron writes "I work at a small reading mash (5,500 students) and am in a site to potentially impress future system system software real wages decisions. I use a number of FOSS solutions at home (OpenOffice.org, Zotero, GIMP, VirtualBox). My university, on the other hand, is a Microsoft and propri...

After reading about the ordeal a paying customer went through attempting to get Adobe to fix a simple mistake, I was reminded of why I lost my faith in proprietary software. After a bad experience reinstalling Win2k, it dawned upon me that software vendors could waste my time, make me jump through h...

What makes a Mac a Mac? I was fiddling around with a G5 tower this morning, and I wondered: what's inside that box that makes it a Mac? I know you can buy the shell (case? enclosure?) that houses the guts of a home made, personalized PC, but as far as I know, you can't do the same with Macs. If I ha...

A recent article caught my eye and turned it a nice shade of red. It discussed the — hardly new — idea that the future of software usage must involve a mixture of free and proprietary products — something the writer refers to as “mixed source”. The piece was entitled &#...