In my last post, I was overflowing with praise for the value of Ubuntu for the non-profit world and said I’d discuss “how Ubuntu works” in this entry. Well “how” is beyond my technical expertise and is undoubtedly a complex dance of 0s and 1s and static electricity. What I meant was a little less technical and more practical… just the joy of using it.

As a former founder/CEO of a paranoid technology company developingproprietary enterprise software, one would think “free” software and Iwouldn’t mix any better than wax and water. After fighting lawsuits torecover my “stolen” software, the idea of ownership is etched into mypsyche. Hence the paranoia in my company… NDAs, trade secrets andpatent interests. The business models around giving software away havemade me confused. Funny though what time spent curled up withfreesoftware magazine will do. I have recently become a strong convertand advocate for the free software movement.