Linux has arrived in box stores.

Well it has happened!!! Open Source software is now getting preloaded in the box stores in Canada. You can see for yourself at your local Staples store. The Eee pc has made it to their shelves. I know a lot of you thought I was wasting my time debugging linux, but now you can see the fruits of our labours without even having to install it. Maybe the world is getting better. This is rarer that rainbow aroura siteing.

Skype vs Empathy vs Pidgin

One of the last hick-ups in Linux is going to be resolved this year thanks to Mike and others. XMPP needs voice and video. Communication needs to be free of license patents.

Vista versus Ubuntu

Why am I a great IT guy? It is because I am lazy. How might laziness be a good thing?, you ask.I choose to do things well so I don't have to redo them again. In Linux people can use other people's hard work without worrying about getting sued. In Vista, Microsoft will sue or a least threaten to sue so you don't know if the work you do will be available to you in a few years. If Bill wants to help out the poor he should be releasing more code under the GNU License instead of creating the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Does it make any sense to trick poor people into vendor lockin only to help them out via cash hand outs? Ubuntu the Operating System that keeps on giving.