Ray's narrative of some of the most unbelievable corporate tactics in US history. The Microsoft brownshirts make Nixon's Muskie killers look like the Keystone Cops. Reading this it seems it will be a miracle if Bill Goebbels doesn't get to visit John Erlichman's old resort motel. Learn what the 'bleeding edge' of technology is really all about: vaporware, FUD, tying, exclusionary licenses, beta blacklists, encrypted AARD code, intentional incompatibility, and more. Ray just won an out of court settlement in this matter after four years litigation.
Ray Noorda's new home, which he shares with OpenLinux.
Analysis of how and why the Linux development model works. The online version of the bestseller.
Who needs Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro? GIMP blows them both away - and it's free!
One of two popular 'skins' for Linux.
Funded by the Free Software Foundation. If you haven't heard of GNU you must have been asleep in a cave for the past twenty years.
Where will Microsoft try to drag you today? Do you really want to go there?
'They want to hijack the Internet we built with brains and sweat and blood; they want top-to-bottom control of computing everywhere; they're determined to have it all, forever and ever, amen.'
Learn how to be regarded on the net as a real dork. Pre-teen web gurus in the employ of their rich corporate executive uncles take note.
With the online version of the The New Hacker's Dictionary published by MIT Press.
One of two popular 'skins' for Linux.
Linux resources.
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What MS believes is the single greatest threat to the Fourth Reich. Run by Michael McLagan.
Visit and buy a coffee cup. Also run by Michael McLagan.
The primary site for Linux kernel source.
Linux in the news.
These guys won't harm you - but they could, so be careful.
These guys have played a big part in almost everything the past thirty years, starting with Multics and BCPL, the predecessors to UNIX and C.
A good starting point. Plan on spending the day.
Author and lecturer on UNIX, Open Source, the like. Check out his lecture schedule. Eric's works lay at the bottom of Mozilla.
Perhaps the best known Linux distributor today. Just entered into an agreement with Salon Magazine. Red Hat Linux (without support) is free.
Former authentic Valley geek, now creative writer extraordinaire, Thomas Scoville authors, among other things, Salon.com's e-Soap Opera 'Silicon Follies'. Wonderful stuff.
The world's first webcam - before there was a web, and before there were cams. And it's still running.
And to the doyens of the Internet.
They run the show - not Bill Gates.
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