Livin' La Vida Linux (ZDNet)

Samba hacker Jeremy Allison reflects on free formats and free software over at ZDNet. He looks at the evolution of storage during his life and looks down the road to see freedom playing a large role. "In short, encoding my CD's in a free format gave me the freedom to do what I wanted with the music I had already bought. In the same way, using Free Software gives device manufacturers the freedom to create the devices they think will be the most popular, without any restrictions on what those devices should do or how they should look. There's no proprietary operating system owner who insists on their consumer 'experience' being done a certain way. No commandments insisting that certain software components must be included in the device, which is to propagate control of proprietary media formats and web browsers, not to give device designers the flexibility they need."

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