[Novalug] Fast Forward Post 15 May 2008

[Megan Larko]

Just FYI,

Todays The Washington Post Business section in Rob Pegoraro Fast Forward 
column is on "Short sighted nostalgia for XP".  He discusses that now 
folks retaining XP over Vista may not be a good idea.  He explains his 
reasons well.  But I call your attention to the last two paragraphs of 
the article which I reprint below:

QUOTE:
But the builders of those little laptops don't have to choose between 
obsolete or sluggish Microsoft software.  Faced with those unappealing 
options, many of them are instead loading the more efficient, free and 
open-source Linux operating system, which happens to perform many 
everyday tasks just as well as Windows does.

If you're unhappy about Vista, don't get sucked in by the misguided 
nostalgia for XP.  Root for the success of non-Windows computers.  Or 
buy one yourself.  Nothing attracts a company's attention like taking 
your business elsewhere.

END QUOTE.

Megan's aside:  Open source and free software exists because of the 
community willing to work on/develop it and of other people to make use 
of it.  If you contribute to this effort, yay for you.  If no one ever 
left a minix environment for a linux one we never would have gotten past 
1.0.   I thank everyone in the community from developers to on-line 
email and web tech guru's who are willing to teach and share their 
expertise to corporations willing to build drivers/open specs for 
hardware to people with an open mind willing to try something different.

I think that we on the LUG's are all a part of this somewhere.  Smile to 
yourself and have a nice day.

megan