Ron Hovsepian

It's important not to get too carried away with "the latest tech trend." Technology changes more rapidly than any other sector, and this year's "must have" technology is quickly made obsolete, or so it seems. However, every so often something significant comes along that truly changes the game. Mainframes yielded to client/server, which in turn was replaced by the Web as the dominant computing paradigm. I believe Linux and Open Source more broadly represent a similar game-changing force. Open Source does two things that fundamentally differ from how proprietary software has worked over the last two decades. First, Open Source returns power to the customer. In the past, customers were largely at the mercy of vendors when considering their computing options. Yes, you could... (more)