The fourth Thursday of November of every year is Thanksgiving. It is a day to think back, remember, and give thanks for all the wonderful things we have in America. We have the freedom to choose between vanilla and chocolate, to speak our minds, to eat turkey until our insides burst, to watch the Detroit Lions get pounded into the astro turf, and so much more.

But have you really thought about what you're thankful for in the FOSS world? What is there that, if it were gone tomorrow, that you'd miss the most? Whatever you would miss the most should be the one thing you're most thankful for having.

There are many things I can say I'm thankful for in the FOSS world. The first would be Linux, a free operating system with no strings attached. Sure, it's got its quirks, but what OS doesn't? And despite any shortcomings it may have, it gives me a freedom to choose, to do things my way, to go places no corporately funded OS would allow you to.

I'm thankful for source code.