Yay for Open Source!
So I’ve avoided talking about the latest kerfuffle in Ubuntuland because I might be biased, working as I do for Canonical. But here’s a bit of musing inspired by it.
Progress
I’d like to focus a bit on how awesome the world is. Open source software is becoming a common and excepted tool. A person anywhere in the world can download and install for free a distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora and have a first class experience. It will come packed with powerful software like Firefox and LibreOffice.
You can provision a virtual server from someone like Amazon, fill it with services like a web server, a code repository, you name it. You can go from idea to website in seconds flat.
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