Commentary

Responding to dangers real and perceived

The CBDTPA is just the latest attempt to punish the innocent while the guilty get away.

Eyes on the wrong prize

The pursuit of ways to run Windows applications under Linux misses the point. Completely.

Other voices: Letters to the editor

Konstantinos Efstathiou: About your last editorial…

In praise of independent projects

Those enormous, monolithic projects are great — but don’t overlook the tremendous work being done by the lone developer or handful of developers.

For whom do they speak?

When developers voice controversial opinions, how far should they go to distance themselves from the projects for which they are known?

As with just about everything else Linux, your involvement in Linux and Main is good for everyone. Here are ways you can participate.

Linux users now greatly outnumber Linux developers. Have the bazaar’s mavens now moved into the cathedral?

A favorable ruling in U.S. v. Microsoft won’t assure the success of Linux, any more than an unfavorable one will assure its demise. Either way, there’s work to do.

Boo! to Yahoo!

Don’t look now, but if you’re on a Yahoo!-hosted mailing list, the terms under which your personal information is made available have changed.

The April Fool’s joke that oughtabe

One of Linux’s greatest strengths — the richness of the console as user-friendly application space — is going almost entirely untapped.

It’s more difficult to find a Linux guru.

But it’s no less important that you find someone who knows more than you do, and who is willing to take you on. Books go only so far.

What does this tell us?

Changes are made in a KWord filter to make it more useful while a useful KMail feature is dropped, even though it was already in the code.

Free or Freeloading?

More and more businesses, including Linux distributors, are abandoning the desktop user. The reason, they say, is that we never buy anything. Are they right?