This Ubuntu Women interview in the Women of Ubuntu Series is with Jane Silber, the current Canonical COO, but as of March 1st, 2010, she will be taking the reins of Canonical as the CEO.

In two different instances this past week I've found people are more interested in stimulating a conversation about the operating system if you let them ask the questions - don't force information on someone they very well might not want or even care about.

"At least 5000 consumers have added their digital signatures to an anti-iPad campaign that's currently petitioning Apple CEO Steve Jobs to remove digital rights management, or DRM, from the device's content..."

"...To me, RMS integrity comes as a result of a mix of rigour, stubbornness, but above all, prioritization..."

One thing holding back the greater adoption of free software in this country is free software.

Often I get the question, "Why should I use Linux?". Obviously this is a very nebulous question that may have as many different reasons as there are Linux users, but let's try and answer it anyway.

«...This wiki lists technologies and services that were developed in the IETF and represent notable successes and failures. The wiki is a collaborative effort of IETF participants, and you are invited to provide feedback to the community about the utility of IETF efforts as well as to facilitate public understanding of IETF work and its impact...»:

"Every year, Wikipedia usage goes upward, and every year the technical folks working and volunteering with Wikimedia have to plan, purchase, and implement new servers to keep up to the growing popularity of Wikipedia and its sister projects. With the advances in computing, running 9 new application servers this year took the load of 36 application servers from 3 years ago..."