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The personal blog of Michael Ashby

Archive / April 19, 2007

Do My Eyes Decieve Me?

I’m looking forward to seeing Apple’s iPhone is going to look like when it finally ships in June. There are days where I think I’m going to be the first one in line to try and buy one and then there’s other days where I think I’ll wait for the next version to come out. […]

My Response To Deb Shinder’s Article

I like Sunbelt Software and I have been a fan of their products for years. Additionally, I’ve been a reader of their blog SunbeltBLOG since it’s inception. If you’re interested in Windows security, I highly recommend adding it to your RSS reader.

That being said, I came across an article on their blog entitled “Are the Open Sourcerers Selling You a Bill of Goods?” by Deb Shinder, which frustrated me after reading it. The article irked me because it’s clear that Ms. Shinder is some what ignorant of exactly what Open Source software is, or isn’t, and yet felt compelled to write something on it. She doesn’t bash Open Source per se, but she does take issue with it, so I decided to write a response.

That response ended up taking a good bit of time to write, so as a result, I decided to post it here as well. Feel free to “read Shinder’s article then refer back to my response. Otherwise it might not make sense being out of context.

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