Silver Jubilee
It’s Linux’s 25th birthday and issue 30 of Ubuntu User. Time to reminisce.
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It’s Linux’s 25th birthday and issue 30 of Ubuntu User. Time to reminisce.
Dear Ubuntu User Reader,
I have always been an avid magazine reader. I have always wanted to write for magazines, too. When I was 17, or thereabouts, I submitted an article alongside the code for my Rubik's Cube simulator to the Spanish edition of Commodore Magazine . They paid me 8,000 pesetas, which was a lot for a teen back then. It was at least enough to buy a double-deck boombox, some Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk LPs, and a bunch of video games, which is what I did.
I also bought a Pascal compiler for my C64, wrote a program, the Game of Life (on a 10x10 grid), got published again, and earned some more money. This was the beginning of a trend.
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The big news of the season is Microsoft cuddling up to Linux. But, how sincere is all this love really?
Sometimes, I admit, I struggle to find topics for this editorial piece. There is only so much you can say about Ubuntu, Free Software, and Linux before you start repeating yourself. But there is no danger of that this month, oh no! There is enough in the news on Ubuntu to fill a book, let alone, one side of an A4 page.
I recently wrote a piece for the 2016 Open Source Yearbook . My piece was called "5 Initiatives that pushed the free software envelope in Europe in 2016" (no, there was no subtitle like "Number 3 will make you cry!"). The piece looked at legislation and policies adopted in the public sector in Germany, Brussels (for the whole of the EU), the Netherlands, Russia, and Bulgaria.
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