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Mike_Miller writes "In a recent interview with ESR in BusinessWeek, ESR calculates that, in 5 years, there will be 750 million Linux users (a conservative estimate). Wouldn't that be great!?! " I think one of my favorite parts is the title: "I want to live in a world where software doesn't stink." But this number should be fairly easy to hit-my cloning project has been doing quite well.

Swampfox writes "This should technically be under GNU, though the article is entitled Linux May Be Running On Some Spindly Legal Legs. It's not a bad article, though, and it basically points out that since the GPL has *yet* to be really tested in court against a well-heeled and motivated opponent (hmm...can anyone think of a well-heeled and motivated opponent of Linux that might be on the horizon?) that it might eventually be an Achilles' heel that could weaken the movement. " Hopefully, this is one of the areas that the FSF will continue to champion and support-and it's a 501(c)(3), so make a contribution to them. The article also talks about the fact that RMS is going to be revising the GPL later on this year.

Well, the folks over at BusinessWeek are currently running a story about Linux. The basic rundown is that Linux is not much of a threat to NT, serving mostly as a threat to other *nixes. As well, the author says that Linux has less then 5% of the server market. I suppose we can't get all good press. Yet.

Chops-Frozen-Water sent us a little story that appeared in BusinessWeek about the Back Orifice fun'n'games. And as, Chops says, it is written in layman's terms so even the pointy-haired bosses can understand it.

Jeremy Collins sent us this article and sent us this one. Both deal with the quite hot topic of college dropouts and the computer industry. I know this personally to be a very hard subject- it's difficult to stumble through biology when I know I'll never need to know about meiosis again, when I could be a number of other places that pay better that sitting in Stats. I'm sure we have a lot of people on both sides of the debate- let's hear about it.

Dan Marks wrote in with a couple of interesting articles related to taxation and the Internet. You can read an article or editorial on the subject.

Dan Marks wrote in with a couple of interesting articles related to taxation and the Internet. You can read an article or editorial on the subject.

Raju Tavadia wrote in to give us this link and this one to a pair of articles about the Palm III- with pictures of the beast.

Hans Cathcart wrote in to correct me on James Nicolson's comments yesterday about the 3com/Pilot/Linux port. Apparently The Linux/microcontroller Project is still doing the port, so I'm not sure what 3com's connection was in all this. The huge response that the article recieved on Slashdot is something that high ranking people at 3com should see. Geek appeal sold a lot of Pilots- Linux will sell even more. They should do everything they can to support this project (read:Big cash donations to TLMP).

adeelarshad82 writes "Amazon's wildly popular Kindle 2 got a good old fashioned tear-down from the folks at market research firm iSuppli. According to the organization, the Kindle 2's manufacturing cost is almost half as much as its retail price."