Thank you for introducing me to this. I love that I can hookup projects to my git repos.

I agree. And more often than not I find that many of the people (in my region at least) who are supposedly for 'small government' are also for allowing the government et al. to invade our privacy because 'well I have nothing to hide so why should I care'. I too want to scream.

I am certainly not happy with Google right now. As soon as I read that I thought 'APPLE!'. Just because I like a lot of their products doesn't mean I support this move. I'll just stick with Fedora and Ubuntu and see if any group decides to recompile the Chromium OS and offer it for all platforms.

I had an illustrated encyclopedia when I was little (I'm the same kid whose parents bought him a leather bound Webster's dictionary, go figure) and loved it to death. I forget what the name of it was but I remember on the cover it had many images and one was a mother with a child, the mother said "Leche" and the baby said "Mama". I think there were other words for milk on the cover.

really? This is sad. 1. Storks 2. Irish midgets 3. Because it would look silly if it were red Geez.

That's what they're trying to set a precedence for so they can push legislation to lock-down the internet.

I'm an ACM member and don't have access. Looks like I would have to shell out another $99 per year in addition to my membership fee for the digital library.

The president of the internet division of the newspaper conglomerate I work for actually said this in response to a manager suggesting working more closely with Google to improve SEO: "We don't want users to search for our site. We need to focus on the users who are on our site and make it easier for them to find the content they want via our internal search." Yeah. We don't want silly new readers. And we don't want readers to be able to find us on search engines. They should just know to come here and when they're here, they'll then learn how to use a search engine - our search engine. I bet our search algorithms are totally better than google's.

Until I got to the end, I thought you were referring to the newspaper conglomerate I work for. It is awful how top heavy our organization is, they slashed benefits and pay, cut talented people (one of my friends was a person let go and HR said these group of people were chosen because the company is less liable for cutting them than cutting some of the more ineffective people because many of them are older) and are still refusing to concede that the internet is their most viable business option. I work in the internet division of this company and we're about the only branch that isn't losing money; but due to their practices, there is only half the staff today there was two years ago. I look forward to them either seeing the light or utterly failing.

I'm just slightly concerned that all the work that has been put into the GPL by FSF (of which I'm a member thus a bit biased) and others will be overshadowed - at least in the mainstream - by Microsoft's step into open source. I support organizations' forays into FOSS, but I'm concerned that Microsoft is trying to eventually be perceived as the leader of FOSS development. And maybe I'm paranoid.

I suggest installing Ubuntu (or some derivation) and go to System-->Preferences-->Session and add a new startup item like, say, Firefox. Have Firefox defaulted to opening the sites she likes to go to. Also, auto-login her user. I basically have this setup at work where I turn on my Ubuntu machine, go pour a cup of coffee, and when I get back Firefox is open and my mail client is open.

Does lusting after all their space make me a peta-phile?

Do research on other companies who have deployed FOSS enterprise-wide. The company I currently work switched gears from a proprietary language based sites to one in Drupal. http://www.jacksonville.com/ now is ranked #4 for best newspaper site http://www.jacksonville.com/business/2009-02-09/story/jacksonvillecom_ranked_no_4_among_nations_top_newspaper_sites Using Drupal has allowed us to package a highly configurable product that we can rapidly deploy to our other business units. I suggest looking for other similar situations.

Celebrate early and often! Free parties with free beer!