Open Source is the answer,
on at least one front. I am not against the man per say (a conservative) but open source code stops government snooping on us, aka NSA/Microsoft & Vista/7. The open source code will make sure we are not back doored, per say.
I've been around and was in the military when I bought my Vic 20, then came Commodore 64 and a 128, Amiga, 386 machine at 25MHz with a overpowered video card with 1Mb of RAM, and so on.
Long Live Linux
Biting the hand that feeds IT
