Why open source?

The terms open source and free software become frequent to hear or to read about these days. In fact the open source community have never been stronger that any time before and it is due to the rise of many Linux based distribution to use as home desktop like Fedora or Ubuntu and the ones targeting the enterprise and server market like Redhat, Suse and Debian (100% free). The decision of dell to sell laptops and desktops equipped by Ubuntu is not a hazard!! Do you thing that the hardware giant is playing by doing that!! I don’t think so! In fact Michael dell himself has tried Ubuntu on his own laptop and after that he has taken the decision to sell it on its hardware. The open source software are being more and more stable and performs as the proprietary ones. M$ has taken 5 years to produce a sheet of software that is called Vista. The only thing to notice about it is the graphic Aero motor and that is a very small thing comparing to the desktop managers compiz or beryl. By this way Dell will increase its concurrency and sell at a lesser price the same hardware (vista is about 300$) with an operating system that is user friendly and that the crowd will regret not discovering it before.