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Editorial: Responding to dangers real and perceived
The CBDTPA is just the latest attempt to punish the innocent while the guilty get away.
The View From the Desktop: 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...
Earlier editorials:
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?
Earlier Views from the Desktop:
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.
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. What does this tell us?
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?
Earlier letters:
Neil Barnes: Linux software bloat
William Caskey, PhD: GNOME on a Low End Machine
Aaron Traas: Ximian GNOME on a low-resources machine
Ingo Klöcker: Wrong and confusing statements in two articles
Kevin: Distributors should specialize
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