Massachusetts Makes Dumb Move Official, Sep 26, 2005

The switch to the OpenDocument format will make state documents less accessible to the public because no one has the software to read the format.

Ten years ago this summer, Rasmus Lerdorf created the wildly popular Web-development language while working at the University of Toronto.

Just about the only thing that's changed over the last decade is that Microsoft's amorphous nightmare has a name: Google

Linux wasn't a box-office hit with Regal Entertainment Group, the country's largest theater owner with $2.5 billion in 2004 revenue. It's switching from open-source Linux to Microsoft Windows.

"Linux is coming, Unix is dead." But there’s no need to panic. Not just yet. The end is not going to come overnight or even in next week or year, but it is certain, or as he puts it, “an absolute”

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