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McBride has emerged as public enemy number one in the eyes of advocates for open-source—or uncopyrighted—software since SCO claimed last year to own code in the open-source operating system Linux, which has gained considerable popularity in the computing world as a viable alternative to Microsoft Windows...
...going to be wireless, more mobile and more affordable too," says Richard Fuchs of the International Development Research Centre. He also notes that "the information economy is moving east," to countries like India and China , which are finding tech solutions that work for them. China last month chose Linux's operating system for a million computers - with 199 million more to follow. That's a no-brainer, not a snub of Microsoft Windows. Open-source software like Linux is easily modified for Asian languages, cost-free and quickly being adopted by governments all over Asia . Bridges work better when...
...when life becomes too dependent on a single source. "The Irish potato famine killed a country. The boll weevil killed an economy," Geer said. "It is self-evident that the desktops of the world are clones ripe for the slaughter"--unless they are Macs or run the open-source Linux software, both underdogs that hackers are less likely to subvert. The latter's ability to be guarded and upgraded on the fly by a universe of programmers offers some protection against the megaviruses. Linux's tamper resistance is one reason governments in particular are showing great interest in Linux-based...
Security experts are willing to cut Microsoft a lot of slack. In some ways, they say, Windows is a victim of its success. if rival operating systems like Linux or Mac OS had a 95% market share, the virus writers would be hard at work probing them for holes. Whether they would find as many is a different question altogether. Linux and, to a lesser extent, Mac OS are open source, which means they're subject to constant peer review by engineers and software writers all over the world. The energy that goes into finding fault with Windows exists...
...switch, which began last Friday, has been mostly smooth sailing except for a few glitches, Davis said. He said the largest transition-related problem reported thus far involved transferring files using SecureFTP, which the systems did not support. By midday Saturday, the Linux administration group at HASCS had it up and running...