Weekend Coffee-Shop Reading

This
was at Barnes and Noble, in href="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/">Linux User &
Developer.  I learned that href="http://www.peugeot.com/">Peugot (the
second-largest auto maker in Europe) plans to install Linux for their
2,500 servers.  That is not particularly surprising.
 What is more, they plan to install Linux on their 20,000
desktop machines!



The href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/studies/publications.htm"
rel="tag">European Commission has published a
study: href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006-11-20-flossimpact.pdf">Study
on the Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the
competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
sector in the EU. Final Report. Nov. 20, 2006. R.A. Ghosh, UNU-MERIT,
NL. et al., (1.7 MB PDF). They found that href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre#Libre">Free/Libre
Open-Source Software (FLOSS) will (maybe) account for 4% of European
GDP by 2010.  



I also learned that Linux is catching up with Windows by offering a new
"feature:"



Linux
Genuine Advantage™



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Did
you wake up this morning and say "I wish someone would figure out a way
to let me do less with my computer"? You've come to the right place!