05.07.09
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Why Ubuntu Should Embrace Wine by Christopher Tozzi

Mark Shuttleworth made some interesting comments recently about the role of the Wine compatibility layer in fostering the migration of Windows users to Ubuntu.  Shuttleworth views Wine, and binary compatibility with Windows applications in general, as a distraction from the real goal of making the free-software world “thrive on its own rules,” not those borrowed from the proprietary ecosystem.  I disagree.  Here’s why.

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03.13.09
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Life Without Proprietary Software: Is It Possible? by Christopher Tozzi

Someone on the Ubuntu forums started an interesting thread today asking, “Can you manage to use only free software on your pc?“  It got me thinking about my dependency on proprietary software, and whether I’d ever really be able to get it out of my life entirely.

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