People like to publish top-10 lists of all sorts. And "reasons to switch to Linux" is no exception. Many of those have been published, and the latest entry is here. However, I think the author completely forgot a very important point.

All too often, popular tech-blogs engage in the old and tired debate about why you should switch to OS X or stay with Windows

The prototype of a tool to check whether the name of a trade mark application has a meaning in any of the EU's official languages, is published as open source by the EU's Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), the agency that is responsible for registering trade marks and designs.

Here’s a list of a few of the reasons I think you might want to take a look at Ubuntu. Thanks to the Ubuntu UK Podcast episode 10 for originally inspiring this post.

Not a single week passes by without me bumping in to yet another blog post giving you 10 – 25 or even 100 reasons you should switch to Linux right now. I say bah humbug to them. If you need someone to give you 100 reasons to switch your current OS of choice, you are better of sticking with it.

Before we start our journey to Linux land there is one question you need to ask yourself: why do YOU want to switch from Windows to Linux? What do you expect Linux to achieve? You don't want to spend the time and effort learning about Linux just to realize that changing your operating system to Linux does not solve the problem you have or does not deliver the benefits you expected.

Paging U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab: Please call us on your cell phone. And better do it fast because cell phones may soon be harder to come by thanks to one of the dumber rulings ever by the U.S. International Trade Commission.

It's becoming increasingly clear that the Internet's perfect copying machine makes copyright largely irrelevant today: once a copy is online somewhere, it's impossible to take it down everywhere. Could the arrival of digital 3D printers like the open source RepRap do the same for patents, by making it possible for anyone to download and print off analogue objects?

Have you ever needed to wirelessly network a Windows PC's directly to a Ubuntu machine?  In other words, you lack a router, switch, or other networking mechanism, each PC has a wireless device and you need to trade a file or play a network game?  Read on