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What do the U.S. Department of Defense, the city of Munich and the radical President of Venezuela have in common? All three are ditching Bill Gates. More and more governments are turning to open-source software like Linux as a cheaper, more flexible alternative to Microsoft's proprietary programs (Microsoft declined to comment for this story.) Linux, in particular, is proving irresistible in the developing world. In Brazil, when Microsoft offered to install Windows in school computers pro bono, Brazil's chief technology officer caused a stir by comparing the company to drug dealers giving the first hit free...
First off, as far as hardware goes, Macs simply aren’t good computers. Even with the recent switch to Intel processors (the “brain” of the computer for the less technically inclined), Macs lag far behind their Windows or Linux counterparts in terms of simple power. Standardized computer graphics tests have shown that the Mac Pro is outperformed tenfold by equivalently priced Windows machines...
...second issue concerns the technology needed for office servers to communicate with one another when they use rival software to share files or printers. The Commission said that without these protocols, computers running rival server operating systems, like open-source software Linux, cannot work properly with Windows...
...books and has published over two dozen academic articles in prominent journals such as Science, the Yale Law Journal and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. His 2006 release "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" and his 2002 essay "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm" are two of the most important works in the field of cyber law and have changed how researchers perceive economic motivators, Palfrey said...
...profit from this volunteerism--but only if they don't get too greedy. The key, Benkler says, is "managing the marriage of money and nonmoney without making nonmoney feel like a sucker." In software, where IBM and other companies charge billions of dollars to install and run otherwise free Linux systems, this seems to be working--in part because Linux volunteers can make money from their expertise and there's a clear understanding of what one can charge...