Linux In 2009 — Recession vs. GNU

RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in open source or the promotion of free software idealism, experts see FOSS as starting from a strong base and actually benefiting from the hard times expected next year. ... [Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation] sees Linux and the FOSS ecosystem surrounding it as having insurmountable advantages in any market over its main competitor Windows — advantages that an economic downturn only intensifies. At a time when a search for the lowest possible price point is happening in such areas as notebooks, FOSS is available at no cost. It is easy to rebrand and customize in a way that Windows Isn't, and is also technically more efficient."

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Re:FOSS Will Gain Market Share

[Minozake]

You must have a good money and living plan to live on savings alone for 2-3 years.

Never been happier

[blue l0g1c]

This is the best recession, ever!

Ok, this is a recession.

[symbolset]

Ft. Leonard Wood, MO. It was February 1984, a brisk 12 degrees. It was our scheduled obstacle course and we were going to take it and prove we were men. 4:30 we mustered, we were at the course by 5. The sun would not be up for hours. The course was simple: over the logs, climb the wall, under the wire and take the hill. We didn't know yet that that the logs were slick with snow, the wall was crusted with ice, the wire was embedded in frosty slush. It was snowing fiercely, so we could see about 12 feet. If you think Army weather gear is up to these conditions, I have nothing to offer except: try it. You haven't lived until you've low crawled your M16 through 30 yards of Margarita slush, bobbing your head up for breath and ducking shells the whole way. Then they started the artillery simulators, threatened to shoot us, and fired .50 cal machine guns over our heads.

Only two of us died. That was a success I guess.

I've got about a dozen of these and I haven't actually been in a war - so you're not hearing from an actual hero. Embrace life and quit whining, bitch.