The Reds are Comin!!!
I apologize for the extended break. It has been a busy couple weeks, but there has also been a lot of buzz around open source since I last wrote. Some of which includes articles on the explosion of linux in China and a bunch of news stories about open source standards. There has even been changes going on at Microsoft shown by their creation of open source labs within the company that are used to aid in operability with open source software. I do not know exactly what they do there, but it is nice to see them move in this direction. The bad reputation that open source has had in the past seems to have stemmed from corporate resistance, but with large companies such as Redhat and SugarCRM leveraging open source, the reputation is cleaning up. Some of the principles of community and sharing were often linked to communist philosophies, which I find very humorous and a feeble attempt to associate negative ideas to open source. However today things are looking up for open source and I happened to find a video that makes fun of this idea that open source is evil and a “tool of the communists”. Check it out…
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