Software Freedom Day

Thought it would be worth noting that today is "Software Freedom Day." This is pretty important in trying to get the world to understand that there is more out there than Windows and Microsoft programs. I've survived 4 years of college using only Linux, and it has come a long way since when I started. Linux is very user friendly these days, although there is still not an ideal desktop operating system. Both Linux and Windows have many drawbacks that result from their production process -- for desktop environments (as opposed to servers). See here for more information: http://softwarefreedomday.org/ . You can seriously do everything you want (most of the time better and easier) for free on your computer. There is no need to pay for software. The cool part from a computer science perspective is that you can go into the code and implement any features that you are interested in yourself and re-release it back into the public.