[NCLUG] rocky mtn news article on linux

[bill ehlert]

by linda seebach

in saturday's dead-tree paper

"Free software got no respect until it reinvented
itself as "open source" software.

"That transformation was one of the case studies
Tim O'Reilly presented to the Accelerating Change
Conference held at Stanford University last
weekend. The conference was the first put on by
the Institute for Accelerating Change, and it
brought together a lot of technology-minded
people who generally agree that their fields are
indeed changing faster than ever, but who are not
entirely of one mind about how much of that is a
good thing."


later on in the article she says:

"O'Reilly showed a slide with a "meme map" for
free software. Free software is a movement as
much as a product, a moral crusade marching under
the banner "Information wants to be free" -
meaning both "liberated" and "at no cost." Almost
since the beginning of widespread computing, it
has been a goal of free-software advocates to
write programs that are as functional as
proprietary ones and give them away, in a form
that allows anybody to use or modify them. Many
of the world's best programmers have contributed
to that effort. In fact, all the software I use
on my laptop is free."


the entire article at:

http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_2283657,00.html


as soon as i finish posting, i'm gonna write
her an emsg of thanks!





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