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About me: I am a lawyer in Southern New Jersey who has been into computers and technology since 1975, and have programmed in BASIC, Fortran, Pascal, and assembler. I blog on legal technology at lawtech.wordpress.com.

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At 5:38pm on September 14, 2007, Joe Panettieri said…: Steve,

I think it's a great time -- but a tricky time -- for Ubuntu. Move forward too fast into the consumer space and you will surely disappoint some/many users. Do too little, and you leave the door open for other Linux variants.

Overall, I like the balance Canonical and Dell are striking. They aren't hyping Ubuntu. And they're letting truly frustrated Windows users discover Ubuntu on their own -- at least for now, that's a good thing.

As more college kids give it a try, I bet the market continues to move Ubuntu's way. Even if Linux only gets 5 percent of the desktop, that's progress. And freedom. And customer choice!

At 4:23am on August 22, 2007, Alex Turner said…: Sorry I did not reply to your question sooner (blush). Is there some way to get this system to email me when questions come up? I have so many active rss feeds, it is getting hard to track them all.

At 3:37pm on August 2, 2007, Joe Panettieri said…: Steve,

Good to hear from you. How long have you been doing your blog? In addition to playing a role on this Web site, my company (http://microcast.biz) has built two successful businesses around blogs (http://muniwireless.com and http://techiqmag.com).

Would love to hear more about what you're up to.
-jp