AcerMed was up until recently everything that a proprietary electronic healthcare record vendor was supposed to be. Now, no one knows whether they will stay in business. GPLMedicine has the full expose on why AcerMed is just the most recent case in point. Proprietary medical software is unethical.

"We freedomware advocates think that switching to a Freedom-respectful operating system (usually GNU/Linux) is the most important step when switching to freedomware, and therefore we focus on promoting these systems (myself included). However, I’ve found out that it does not matter that much.

Whether you think free software is about what you can get without paying, or the more philosophical concept of freedom doesn't really matter, Linux author Linus Torvalds told LinuxInsider. The software will continue gaining ground no matter how people feel about it.

A lot have been said about user experience, themes and looks of your OS in general. Some claim that OSX has the best GUI around. Aero fans drool over its fancy windows flip thingy. But does it really all matter? Take a look and decide yourself.

An illusion in the minds of many is that Center for Certification of Health Information Technology (CCHIT) certified EHR systems are interoperable. To many, this would be one of the major if not sole reasons for CCHIT to exist. The surprising reality is that this is something that CCHIT certification does not currently include.

"No matter how virus-ridden a hard drive may be, no matter how lacking its firewall or anti-spyware software, a bootable CD bypasses it all. The user simply reboots their computer with the CD in the tray."

Do desktops matter? Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation insists they don’t.

As the industry grows there are a select group of business leaders that are making the industry what it is today and will be responsible for the direction and success of the industry going forward. Here are the open source business leaders who matter the most as 2008 begins.

No matter what other distro I try to use on a daily basis, and no matter how many little “papercuts” annoy me in Ubuntu, I can’t help but come back to it as my daily driver.