Telstra standardises on Linux and Unix. It’s good to see, corporations embracing Linux so whole-heartedly. They’re not going to use it for their really high-end stuff like billing, which they will use Sun Solaris for. I think going with Linux is a reasonable thing to do, really. There’s thousands of people who want it to survive; they work on it and keep it alive just because they want to. It means that no one company going broke or one group of developers or one bunch of cost-cutting beancounters can make Linux go away. It’s global and it’s everyone’s. Yaay for Linux.
Courtney Love does the math. This is from all the way back in June, 2000. Back when Napster was going strong and Gnutella still wasn’t finished, Morpheus and Kazaa weren’t even thought of. Courtney discusses how record companies and the RIAA lobby government to have the power to screw over artists while the companies make millions. It’s a passionate article, you can tell she cares about this stuff.