Thing #24

While I'm home recovering from eye surgery I took the time to watch "OS Revolution." The subtitle could have been "The history of computing from the viewpoint of Open Source legends". While anyone alive today in the US over about the age of 30 and a computer user would have at least a passing knowledge of the events in the video, it was great to see the interviews of the people who lived the history . There was not too much Microsoft bashing, with a whole lot of Linux is wonderful. Here we are at Howard County Library, adding our own piece of history with our decision to embrace more and more Open Source. It leaves one with a sense that we are experimenting within a grand tradition as old as computing itself, but endlessly expanding and variable and Open.