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Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson, who goes by "Tom" on the site, saw it differently. "Ten ways Ubuntu is harder than Windows," she began: ...

"It depends on how you define an open-source company," noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "I seem to remember IBM spending a billion dollars a year on linux research and development," Hudson pointed out. "I'm sure they make their money ...

"This makes me think of jam. Raspberry jam," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "In The Secrets of Consulting, Gerald Weinberg talks about the Law of Raspberry Jam: 'The wider you spread it, the thinner it gets,'" Hudson explained....

Google will even benefit through reduced energy costs, noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by ...

In fact, "Malaria affects 1,200 Americans every year, and drug resistance is becoming a problem," noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "Complete drug resistance would have serious consequences everywhere." 'GNU/Glaxo'...

When it comes to those not already familiar with Linux, however, old hardware may not be the way to go, asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. '$10 for the Booze'...

"Absolutely! Linux should go and make me a coffee! Then it should automagically translate my ideas into perfect code," quipped Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "And how about walking my dogs for me? Or put away the laundry? Linux is certainly not doing enough for *this* programmer!"...

Not only that, but "a lot that we take for granted today wouldn't be possible without linux or another free OS," noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. Antivirus Savings...

Regardless of one's position on that particular point, the news should still "silence all the 'but linux doesn't have games' complainers," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. So far, Steam isn't delivering games that Linux users can't al...

On the other hand, "rich or poor, it's always nice to have money," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. 'Practically Free Doesn't Scale'...

Similarly: "Ubuntu accounts for the majority of Linux desktop de-installations," asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site "People who download the image try it, then go back to Windows," Hudson explained. "This is what happens when you try t...

That was Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson's response to a question being debated in the Linux blogosphere in recent days. Specifically, is Apple or Microsoft worse for FOSS? Cupertino was the choice of Alastair Otter, the blogger who originally raised the question on South Afri...

"That's for the courts to decide," opined Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "But this is one of those lawsuits that would probably benefit from applying the rule, 'de minimis non curat lex': the law does not concern itself with trifles..." S...

Then again, "it's certainly NOT the bandwidth problem," asserted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "The poster says that people have no problem copying Windows and other software CDs, so it's not like everyone would have to use up their mont...

contest," agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "Then again, put a monkey against monkeyboy and it's a close call ... the monkey flings poo at visitors, the chair-man flings poo at end users." As for lamentations that Linux lacks a unifyin...

Certainly, in a market with multiple alternatives, the impact will be minimal, agreed Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site. "I've got over two dozen media players installed under Linux, and I don't use any of them," asserted Hudson, adding that ...

Two points stand out in all this for Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson, who goes by "Tom" on the site: 1. "IBM was aware of, used and even wrote about the emulator"; and 2. "An emulator is just that -- an emulator. It doesn't interact with the underlying hardware in the same ...

The situation "reminds me of the old adage, 'The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away'," said Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site "The big print was, 'Price Cut on PS3'; the fine print was, 'and so were the features,'" she explained....

The mention of Easter eggs took Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson, who goes by "Tom" on the site, all the way back to the pre-PC days, "when holding down a key and pressing the reset button brought up a bitmap picture of the 3 guys who did basic for the Tandy Color Computer. Some nobody named Bill Gates..."

Then again, the sheer number of Linux-based devices expected to come out this year could be a problem, noted Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site "It's becoming like choosing a cellphone plan," she told LinuxInsider....