Welcome New User
House on Red Corner · 2007-02-24
I bought a computer two years ago. It was the very first one that I owned and I got it used from craigslist.org. It was nice, an old Titanium Powerbook G4 and it came loaded, as the advertiser put it. Then when half the programs expired and quit working about a month into it, I realized i could not afford the thousands of dollars of licenses that were require to legally use them.
As someone showed me the Firefox WebBrowser, I had become somewhat aware of the term “Open Source” and began using that in my searches at that really famous search engine whose name has become a verb. This resulted in my finding tons of applications that were free to use and I liked that.
Then one day I stumbled upon this article and everything changed. I read the essay at least four times in quick succession, took notes and set out a little list of things to do. Because I was on a Powerbook which uses the PowerPC architecture, when I went looking for a Linux distribution, I had to take that into account. Ubuntu Linux satisfied that requirement. Then when I read some more about it, including the philosophy as stated,
that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.
I was hooked.
Fast forward, I have been using Ubuntu in some form or another on most of my growing collection of machines for eighteen months now and have been advocating that more people and businesses use it for nearly the same amount of time. So it is with great pleasure that I welcome our newest user and congratulate everybody who contributed to the successful Ubucon in New York last week.
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