Memorable October for open source

In case you haven’t noticed, October has been a really phenomenal month for open source software. My favorite database management system, MySQL, has released version 5.0. A great alternative to Micro$oft Office, OpenOffice.org, has finally set version 2.0 of its office suite loose. And everybody’s favorite new Linux distro, Ubuntu, just released version 5.10 (code name Breezy Badger).

And November promises to be a great month also as the Mozilla team is set to release version 1.5 of both Firefox and Thunderbird within a few weeks.

Lots of free software that’s better than the stuff you pay all that money for? It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

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