Ken Dyke's blog

Fortune magazine is playing host to Microsoft's latest attack on free/open source software (FOSS). Kind of like Fox News playing host to Dick Cheney attacking opponents of the Bush administration. I like how the title of the article reads, "Microsoft takes on the free world". It sounds like Microsoft is attacking democracy and all right thinking people. Well, now that I think about it, they are. :-) The article itself is not overly biased considering the audience of Fortune.

The eighth annual Fest was April 28th and 29th. There were almost 900 attendees this year. The biggest yet. This year they added a second day. So, for an additional small percentage of overall trip cost I was able to take in twice as many sessions.

• Load Balancing with Linux Virtual Server
  by Jed Reynolds, Bitrachet
• Hacking you Cellphone
  by Nimret Sandu, Nimsoft/Motorola
• OpenID and the State of Distributed Identity
  by Aaron Klemm, Unripped.com
• Network Management Best Practives
  
  

Doc Searls is challenging the big OEMs to think outside the Microsoft PC box. It was three or four years ago that Searls observed that Linux is not a platform. Here he is back riffing on that theme...
Thinking Past Platforms: the Next Challenge for Linux

Towards the end of the article he challenges us in the FOSS community to stop thinking of and advocating Linux as an alternative to Windows/OS X. This is a very good point and one I, personally, should have thought of a long time ago.