Stallman on handing over GNU Emacs, its future and the importance of nomenclature, Feb 26, 2008

The message posted Friday evening on emacs-eval by Richard Stallman was cryptic: "Stefan and Yidong offered to take over, so I am willing to hand over Emacs development to them."

In October I discussed the way people tend to misinterpret phishing botnet statistics. The key point was that people saw that many of the phishing Web sites were on Linux servers, and somehow leaped to the conclusion this meant Linux desktops were parts of the botnets sending out phishing emails.

Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project that's among the best-known open-source threats to Windows, has words of praise for Microsoft's announcement last week that it would share some previously hard-to-get technology with open-source programmers.

What is it about Ubuntu that has generated such excitement about Linux? To steal a word from Obama's playbook, "Change."

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