"Are you more interested in having a wide variety of software available to run on your computer, or in helping some organization attain the power and control that it seeks? And if it's the latter, to whom do you want to give the control -- a hegemonistic corporation whose goals are strictly its own, or a batch of ivory-tower Bolsheviks who also do not have your best interests in mind."

Linux has always played a key role in servers, but now the door is open for Linux to penetrate the heart of the Internet: the high-speed router. These devices, made popular by Cisco Systems, create the Internet by moving data from place to place.

"By releasing Qt under the GPL only after it has become well established and mature, Trolltech hopes to ensure that the market associates Qt with Trolltech, and that customers approach them first when they need Qt-related help."

If you're an I.T. professional working with Linux, you have a handful of options if you want a certification, and the vendors are jockeying for the position as the dominant product.

"The main guideline is that the FAQ doesn't spew trash about Microsoft. If there's a legitimate technical deficiency, fine, then I'll mention it if the deficiency is relevant to Linux. It rarely is."

"I'm not a Java fanatic, but I do like the language and I've used it extensively in the past, so I take a special interest in this situation ... As I see it, the reason Java's largely ignored in the Linux realm is one or more of the following factors: politics ... principles ... Java is slow."

"The following hypothetical is a possible way that an unscrupulous company can bypass the restrictions of the general public license (GPL). I'd love to hear from anyone that can find a flaw in the argument."

"Judging from the time I spent with Ximian and Eazel, two of the major players working to making GNOME the great free hope of desktop computing, Linux is now approaching the status of just good enough."

"Even if a player like Microsoft released a distribution (Black Hat Linux?) with its full marketing power, it would stand little chance of dominating the Linux market or endangering the freedom of open source development. That's because no one on the corporate dark side controls the kernel development--Linux's heart and soul."

"The Linux revolution is past the hype stage, past the cries of surprise from the tres duh press. Linux is a better mousetrap and the world is realizing this. No amount of FUD from Microsoft is going to change that."