There is the view that the poor programmers are being used and abused because they are writing free software that unscrupulous freeloading users are taking advantage of... open source programmers have a totally different view of things

Now that Firefox 3 is out and so many of us dislike some of the new default behaviors I thought of a way that a number of us could be made very happy, but it requires the services of programmers within the open source community.

A look at reputation laundering from Microsoft and how easily it can be refuted, by showing that Microsoft still attacks software freedom, abuses US/international law, and harms programmers in general

It's hard for me to admit it but there are things, ten things to be exact, that I really hate about Linux.

"In the Information Technology world, the Free Software Foundation is the organization that struggles against the drive to convert knowledge itself into a capitalist commodity known as Intellectual Property. The emergence of [GNU/Linux], the fastest growing computer operating system (OS), has done much to validate the FSF work.

Yesterday, Microsoft announced DreamSpark – an ironic name, since it actually lays bare Microsoft's worst nightmare: that more and more of tomorrow's programmers are growing up using free software for their studies, which means that as they move out into the world, there will be less and less demand for Microsoft's tools, and even fewer programs written for its platforms.

Should Linux do more for programmers? "Absolutely! Linux should go and make me a coffee! Then it should automagically translate my ideas into perfect code," quipped Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot. "And how about walking my dogs for me? Or put away the laundry? Linux is certainly not doing enough for *this* programmer!"

Many users think that gedit - the default text editor for the GNOME desktop environment - is a simple editor that can only do some basic editing. In reality, it has many features that makes it a good choice for programmers. But perhaps the most important feature of gedit is its powerful plugin system. In this post, I'll concentrate on 5 gedit plugins that are essential for programmers.

Choosing a password is always a trade-off between security and usability. Programmers can shift this compromise thanks to some qualities of their work. The idea is to use lines of code as passwords.