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It's the Fulbright time of year. I've been getting emails from incoming Fulbrighters for this next year and they are asking a range of different questions. Most of which are pretty straightforward but then there's the question about housing. How do I find an apartment? Well, I got lucky, lucky and inherited one from a former Fulbrighter and then passed it on after my year to a current Fulbrighter. But not everyone can be lucky.
It got me thinking, finding an apartment has got to be one of the big challenges for Fulbrighters. You don't speak the language, you don't know the city and you don't have any familiarity with the housing market. That's a recipe for, well, expensive expat housing. I'd say that this is housing mainly in the city center that looks good–but is low quality–and you get to pay top dollar for it. Or I guess top leva, if you're a stickler for those kinds of things.
I ended up writing this in response to a curious Fulbrighter this morning:
Honestly, good housing for a good price is notoriously hard to find in Sofia. I'd email current Fulbrighters and see if they would offer to connect you with their current landlords. If not, come to Sofia, stay in a hostel for a few days (or maybe even something more like a week) and look, look, look! You'll find something but standards in housing are not the same as in the states and when you move into the ex-pat housing market the prices go up but the quality doesn't necessarily go up at an equal rate. This said, you wont be homeless but the process is a trade off.
But frankly, it felt like a totally un-helpful response. Sure, I got across the idea that finding housing is a balancing act and that you've got to consider what's the most important to you like central heating vs space heaters, location vs price or vintage circa 1980's Bulgaria-chic vs stark modern chic. However, these are all abstractions unless you can get your food into the housing market.
So, dear Bulgarian readers, knowing what you know of the rental market in Sofia and pretending to be a foreigner, like me, what steps would you take to secure a furnished apartment in the general city center area (not Mladost for example) at a price between 400 and 600 leva a month?


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4/5 potatoes – scraped and diced
8/9 flakes of – garlic chopped finely
1 big onion – diced roughly
juice of 1/2 lime
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Over the Halloween weekend 17 people were killed in Chicago and 41 in total were shot!
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The Halloween incident took place across Chicago between Friday evening and Monday morning.
"Total silence was honor among thieves, not honor among murderers, honor among shooters," said crisis responder Dawn Valenti. "It's not normal and I am not going to accept it as normal and nobody should accept it as normal because if we accept it as normal it's going to continue."
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A well-known corporate sustainability strategist, Charles Lockwood, also found that when Toyota changed one of its office buildings to an LEED-certified structure that absenteeism dropped by 14%. Why would absenteeism drop? Well, cleaner air and less toxic materials off-gassing into your work environment means that you're less likely to call in sick because of a headache, chest cold, allergies, or other illness associated with poor IAQ.
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While the idea of public housing is, at its core, an excellent idea, the execution of buildings across the globe have been less than successful for a number of reasons. Mostly, crime and poverty run rampant in public housing units, and it is often hard (if not impossible) to control because of the renters living in the public housing units. However, those aren't the only issues faced by public housing units, and public health and safety boards are starting to wake up to the fact that air quality is a major issue.
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The problem of indoor air quality problems in public housing could possibly be solved without banning smoking (though that would obviously help) by implementing standard air filtration units in each building. Dealing with smoke is one thing, but mold is just as life-threatening and can be treated with proper air ventilation and filtration.
Public housing was created to help those who were less fortunate in life and needed a place to live, and yet we are providing them with dangerous, unhealthy living spaces. It's time we stepped up and provided the standard of living we'd expect in a middle- to upper-class home. Don't we all deserve that?
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As the world calls for more and more resources, mining has taken hold of North America. There are roughly 300 functioning mines across North America right now. From gold mines to tintalum and niobium mines, if there's a demand for it, it's being dug for.
Mining has never been considered a safe profession. From wall collapses to explosions, mining has claimed the lives of many over the centuries. While modern mining is much safer than it used to be — accounting for 0.02% of deaths in the USA, compared with 0.016% caused by car accidents yearly — it still has occupational hazards unique to the profession of mining. Particle matter from mining dust is one of the most deadly occupational hazards associated with mining — and not just for the workers in the mining shafts.
Because there are so many types of mines across North America, it's impossible to pinpoint a single particle matter that causes respiratory illness in workers and residents near mine shafts. The most common mines around are coal mines, however, there are a multitude of other mines across North America. We'll focus on coal mining for the moment.
There are several hazardous "damps" (steam/vapor) that can appear in coal mines and can cause serious respiratory problems for coal mine workers. Black damp is a mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. If inhaled, black damp can cause suffocation. Fire damp is mostly methane and is extremely flammable and also poisonous if inhaled, touched or ingested. After damp, which forms after a mine explosion and is less common, is composed of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Stink damp can, perhaps, be the most damaging in terms of how it affects the body. Named "stink" damp because of its rotten-egg smell, this airborne pollutant consists of hydrogen sulphide. Exposure to hydrogen sulphide prevents the brain from using oxygen by inhibiting the enzyme cytochrome oxidase, which is never a good thing. And finally, there's white damp which is air containing carbon monoxide, which can also be lethal. Because carbon monoxide is so difficult to detect without the proper sensory machinery, this damp is extremely dangerous and can lead to death is less than 3 minutes if the exposure levels are high enough.
The most common respiratory illness in coal miners (often referred to as the coal workers' pneumoconiosis) is black lung disease. This respiratory illness is caused by long-term exposure to coal dust. It is a great concern in coal mine workers in North America and spurred the Black Lung Disability Trust because so many miners were falling ill with the disease.
Prevention of lung disease in miners is still very much in its infancy. While ventilation shafts and water systems are in place in most, if not all, underground mines, the worker's exposure to airborne toxins is still too high.
How do we keep our miners safe from diseases like black lung?
This is something the mining industry has to take into consideration, and it has for the most part. Ramping up mine air quality monitoring systems and ventilation shafts, however, miners are still at risk.
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Recently, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case of Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who declined to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple. With the recent same-sex marriage legislation that has been passed in Australia, there's a lot we can learn from the arguments made during the hearing.
The first: Mutual tolerance is essential in a free society
It is natural that there be many different beliefs in a society. As a developed society, we should be able to function in harmony with our neighbours. As Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said during the hearing:
Tolerance is essential in a free society. And tolerance is most meaningful when it's mutual.
Supporters of same-sex marriage want tolerance of their beliefs, yet they refuse to tolerate the beliefs of those who disagree with them. It is important to distinguish the difference between tolerance and acceptance of beliefs; the government can require tolerance, but cannot force acceptance.
Which brings us to the other important point: Orthodoxy cannot be determined by the state.
Forcing an individual to do something that violates their beliefs is enforcing a belief system on that person. The state's role in a civil society is not to tell people what to believe, but rather, to ensure the freedom to practice their beliefs. It is only in primitive societies where the beliefs of the stronger are forced on those with less power.
As commentator Emilie Kao said about the case:
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Xtra Shiny is an Adelaide studio started and run by talented creative Adam Johnson. The small studio works on a diverse range of projects from print to interior fit outs and boasts clients like Audi!
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Craving greater diversity and control after 12 years as an advertising art director, Xtra Shiny was formed by myself — with a view to bring together the client and the creative director through unfiltered dialogue. Expanding creative responses past the two-dimensional is a strong focus. It's just me and my partner – plus two other freelance designers who share the office. We operate like a film crew… The producer/director assemble the right team for the job and work to a creative brief and budget. People we work well with continue to be involved in projects over-and-over. This approach keeps business overheads down and assists in avoiding a 'house-style'.
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Hurt is mad at Williams over a bill in the legislature that died when Williams was president of the Senate. The bill would have extended the Senior Judge Status program, but it died in the House, in effect, sunseting the program — but not before Hurt boarded that gravy train.
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"I have long felt the need for such a book as The Flying Camel, and for a representation of the voices and perspectives within it."
Leila Ahmed
"The Women's Studies Program and Religion Department at Temple University find The Flying Camel of great importance in teaching courses in "International Women's Writing" and "Women, Religion and Society.""
Rebecca Alpert
"The Flying Camel provides a wonderful opportunity to reflect on an unjustly neglected identity and to see it through the eyes of those who have lived it. It is certainly true that the lives of Jewish women from the Arabic-speaking world are unknown to too many in our society and that our understanding of questions of Arab, Jewish, and American identities are diminished by our ignorance. I find this book useful in the courses I teach on questions of identity and ethics in the contemporary world."
Kwame Anthony Appiah
"The Flying Camel is a powerful anthology of creative works by North African and Middle Eastern Jewish women whose voices have rarely been heard either in the United States or in Israel. These women embody the "impossible": They are Jewish and Arab, feminist and lesbian, women of color, and indigenous to North Africa and the Middle East. Their stories of struggle and sacrifice give us reason to hope that in this time of terrible suffering and war, peace and justice may continue to be our twin aspirations. This book could not be more timely, and is of great benefit to those of us teaching in Women's Studies and Jewish Studies programs."
Bettina Aptheker
"The Flying Camel fills a gap in three separate academic areas – Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, and Multicultural Studies. I will speak to the area of Women's Studies, since that is the area in which I teach: First, there is not enough literature or knowledge about Jewish women in general. Second, for those of us who teach in the Northeast, Jewish women are often a large percentage of our students. I have usually about 50% Jewish women in my "Women's Lives" class. Third, and perhaps most important, this book will offer something that does not exist now – a recognition that not all Jewish women are from European backgrounds. There is a real need for a multicultural analysis of Jewish people and therefore also Jewish women. This book offers just that analysis.
Beyond the needs of Women's Studies, I think that in this moment in time, a multicultural analysis of Jewish people, including Jewish people from African and Middle Eastern backgrounds, is crucial. What happened on 9/11 has finally taught us that we need to learn more about the world outside of the U.S.A., and the Middle East violence has taught us that we need to understand more fully the problems in that area. This book breaks down the falsely constructed duality between Arab and Jew and offers us a more complex and complete picture of identity in that region."
Judith Barker
"I am interested in this book for my course, 'Women in the Modern Middle East.'"
Joel Beinin
"The Flying Camel is a truly innovative and original contribution; there is no other book dealing with this topic in the literature on Women's Studies."
Lila Braine
"The Flying Camel illuminates the ethnic diversity among Jewish women and explores the misconceptions that many Americans (and others) have regarding the Jewish population and the Middle East conflict, e.g., that there cannot be an overlap between Arabs and Jews. The trend today is for Women's Studies curricula to become increasingly diverse and international in scope, and therefore I think that the book would be of interest to many faculty teaching women's studies courses. The collection also is very timely. It clearly counters the stereotypes of Arabs that have been so unfortunately fueled by the recent tragic events, and brings more understanding of the complexity of the Middle East conflict."
Jill M. Bystydzienski
"The Flying Camel fills an important curriculum gap in Anthropology and Gender Studies. It is particularly timely now, as questions regarding the culturally prescribed rules and variations in practice by Middle Eastern women is most relevant. I teach courses in Gender Studies and find a book on this topic most helpful."
Janet Chernela
"Loolwa Khazzoom has compiled a captivating collection of first-person accounts that makes us alternately cry for and celebrate the all-but-forgotten Jewish women of Africa and the Middle East and their American descendants. Stories of adventure, loss, degradation, courage, and personal triumph provide insight into the fascinating mix of Moslem and Jewish culture and its collision with contemporary American values. At this time in our history, we as Americans are starting to wake up to the world around us, especially to the plight of women in the Middle East. Khazzoom's work makes a fine contribution toward lifting the veil from our own eyes."
Carrie Yang Costello
"A provocative collection that attempts to untangle complicated webs of anti-Semitism, racism, and misogyny, The Flying Camel presents a chellenging introduction to complex struggles around issues of identity and community."
Angela Y. Davis
"Blasting away every bagels-and-lox cliche, these writers reveal the rich, vital, and shamefully overlooked dimensions of Jewish identity, reminding us that Jews are a rich strand of multicultural, global communities."
Ophira Edut
"There is no question that The Flying Camel fills a gap in the available literature on the intersections between gender, ethnicity, nationality, and religion. I know of no such book of first-person, experiential accounts by Jewish women of color; the very idea of the book complicates the notion of "the Jewish community" in interesting and useful ways. This book is a useful undergraduate teaching tool for Women's Studies courses, Ethnic Studies courses, Judaic Studies courses, and for Sociology courses that deal with the complexity of collective and individual identities."
Joshua Gamson
"The Flying Camel is a much-needed and welcome addition to the voices of women oppressed not just because of gender but also because of race, ethnicity, or religion. The voices of the many Jewish women in the text cry out with anger and also conviction against the injustices committed against them. This is an excellent text for Women's Studies programs as well as Theology, Sociology, and Anthropology courses. It exposes the reader to new understandings of Judaism and challenges all of us to listen and learn."
Diana L. Hayes
"While there is a great deal of literature on Jewish women, very little of this work specifically addresses the experiences, perspectives, and issues of Jewish women of color. The Flying Camel is timely and offers a much-needed discussion of diversity within Jewish culture and among Jewish women. The insights that it providea on the Arab-Israeli conflict are especially important, given the on-going tensions and violence in the Middle East. The book is useful for Women's Studies as well as Jewish Studies classes and fills a void in the study of Gender and Jewish Culture."
Janet Jacobs
"It is most exciting to learn that there is a book which deals with the North African Jewish women's experience, which has been ignored until now. It is a necessary addition to any study of Jewish culture, and especially the lives of women."
Aliza Keddem, Ph.D.
"I have been teaching "The Jewish Women: Some Historical and Cultural Perspectives" since 1995. A primary aim in all my courses is to provide students with a perspective that includes the diverse and international history and culture of Jews.
I have had great difficulty in balancing my syllabus with materials specifically on North African and Middle Eastern Jewish women and generally on Jewish women of color, because not many materials have been available. I was, therefore, greatly pleased to find the work of Loolwa Khazzoom in an issue of Bridges magazine and have included in my syllabus her article, "A Bridge Between Different Worlds" since its first appearance in 1995. Its feminist passion and commitment to honoring and maintaining North African and Middle Eastern Jewish identity was an eye-opener to my students of European background and an inspiration to those from non-European backgrounds.
Ms. Khazzoom has contributed other materials to Bridges magazine, which I have also used. But clearly many voices and perspectives are needed. The rich and complex experience of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish women cannot be captured in a single article or story. I am heartened that Ms. Khazzoom has edited an anthology which begins to address this complexity. The Flying Camel helps provide the broader perspective that is needed in all Jewish courses, a perspective that many of my colleagues seek."
Irena Klepfisz
"The Flying Camel explores Jewish identities in all of their varieties and complexities. Through critical essays and creative narratives, readers are introduced to deeply emotional identity searches and long-held cultural practices. The collection is not only timely, dovetailing with multicultural efforts in our communities and in our universities, but also necessary. For Jewish Studies instructors who wish to introduce their students to the continued struggles of and range of voices among the Jewish people, this text should be a requirement; for Women's Studies instructors who wish to diversify stories about and by women of the East, this collection is equally essential. This text cuts across many academic fields in honestly and openly confronting issues of identity, gender, and social isolation."
Miriamne Ara Krummel
"Today, good teaching and scholarship demand that the diverse voices of women be heard and represented first hand. I am therefore always on the lookout for books like The Flying Camel that provide these voices, along with a commentary that reflects current trends in scholarship."
Becky R. Lee
"As the interest in Jewish Women's Studies continues to grow, we become more sensitive to the gaps in our knowledge. It is imperative that we include in our understanding of the field the historic and contemporary experience of the full range of Jewish women. Loolwa Khazzoom's book fills in an area which is often overlooked and thus provides ample material both for those engaged in the academic study of the field and for the large group of non-academic interested readers."
Professor Anne Lapidus Lerner
"I am impressed by the wide spectrum of writers and issues in The Flying Camel. This insightful and rich volume contributes significantly to the current knowledge about women in modern Arab societies."
Yoram Meital
"The Flying Camel is a useful addition to those texts on ethnic and religious diversity available to professors teaching courses with a cultural diversity component. The chapters are both compelling and accessible to an undergraduate audience, and describe the experiences of individuals with whose backgrounds many will be unfamiliar. This book can be used for courses in Sociology, Women's Studies, Racial and Ethnic Minorities, World Cultures, and Cultural Diversity."
Bonnie J. Morris
"The Flying Camel is exactly the sort of collection that is needed in both Jewish Studies and Gender and Women's studies today. Jewish studies is far too Euro- and U.S.-centric, and the perspectives offered by these essays helps students and faculty alike understand the many different cultures and communities that fall under the rubric of Judaism worldwide. Nearly all the essays expose the ethnic and racial cleavages that lie hidden within the supposed unity of "the Jewish community," and many provide deep insights into the political as well as cultural implications of these cleavages. The collection also has much to offer the field of Gender and Women's Studies. Given both current events and recent world history, there is a good deal of unexamined anti-Semitism in this field. By demonstrating the multi-ethnic constitution of global Jewry, the essays help break down the first-world/third-world tension that often crops up in Gender and Women's Studies courses, placing Jews on the "politically incorrect" side of that divide. In addition, the essays' sensitivity to sexual identities within Jewish communities fit very well with ongoing concerns about this issue within the field."
Sonya Michel
"For too long, the overlapping movements for Jewish and feminist visibility have ignored North African and Middle Eastern Jewish women, but Loolwa Khazzoom's new anthology challenges that posture of exclusion. Especially now, it is urgent that activists concerned with both Jewish survival and female empowerment hear the voices of women whose traditions and experiences are not those of hegemonically represented Eastern European Judaism. In The Flying Camel, contributors challenge notions of Western "Jewish culture." They also have much to say to the men of their own communities and to anyone who identifies with the struggle of being an exoticized "other." The anthology is a much-needed letter from women who cross ethnic and gendered borders in their daily lives as Jews. And the book is an enormous asset at a moment when American scholars and media seek authentic representation of Middle Eastern women's issues."
Margaret O'Neal
"There is no question that a more thoughtful view of the role of North African and Middle Eastern Jews, particularly those of the women, is crucial to an understanding of many issues relating to Middle Eastern society and history, and The Flying Camel is a most valuable contribution."
Lawrence Rosen
"It's about time! The Flying Camel is an important, long-overdue book that will make an indelible, desperately needed mark on American Jewish life."
Danya Ruttenberg
"The Flying Camel is desperately needed by those of us who teach courses within Jewish Studies and within Women Studies. While we have a selection of undergraduate and graduate texts on white Ashkenazi (Central/Eastern European) Jewish women, we do not have a single anthology on North African and Middle Eastern Jewish women. As a result, Jewish women of color are almost always rendered invisible within the university curriculum. At best, they make a very token appearance. Ms. Khazzoom's book makes an important contribution towards rectifying this serious (and intolerable) omission."
What a treasure this book holds! for many of us whose Eastern European culture has for so long been taken as the Jewish norm, The Flying Camel provides the missing tiles in the mosaic puzzle which is the global story of Jewish women's lives."
Susan Weidman Schneider
"The experiences, ideas, and values of Jewish women are not monolithic. Khazzoom, founder of the Jewish multiculturalism movement, brings us the plethora of voices present in global Judaism. The fact that these voices are female makes this collection of essays all the more exciting and ground-breaking. Jewish women, in all our difference and diversity, unite!"
Rivka Solomon
"I strongly support the publication of The Flying Camel. This anthology is desperately needed by those of us who teach courses within Jewish Studies and within Women Studies. While we have a selection of texts on white Ashkenazi women, we do not have a single anthology on North African and Middle Eastern Jewish women. As a result, Sephardic and Mizrahi women are almost always rendered invisible within the university curriculum. At best, they make a very token appearance. Ms. Khazzoom's book will make an important contribution towards rectifying this serious omission."
Shelly Tenenbaum
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My husband I met while serving as urban missionaries in Detroit, Michigan. We had very little money to rent a house when we married as we only worked part-time. God provided the house with no money out of pocket. This great house needed work and my husband offered to make repairs in exchange for deposit and two months rent. This house was perfect for our needs. We had extra bedrooms to share with others, a large living room for small group bible study, a large kitchen and a large dinning room to cook, eat meals and fellowship with our new converts and others in the study group.
We had very little money, no furniture to speak of except the bedroom furniture that we each brought from the apartments we had shared with other believers. Church members gave us all the furniture we needed and we were content.
One day my husband said let's go on a scavenger hunt. We drove through the upscale and wealthy neigborhoods of Detroit, stopping at various house with junk on the curb. He got out and looked, I simply would not. I had never done anything like this in my life and was embarrased beyond belief. Finally, Ron looked at me and said "if you get into this, you might be surprised at what God will do." He then prayed and thanked God for his blessings in our life and for me to have an open heart and a spirit of adventure. How can you resist that.
"How do I do this thing", I asked
"Think of the one thing that we really need, keep it to yourself, pray and wait."
We drove around two or three corners and down an alley. I suddenly heard God's voice - Stop!
"Stop, Ron!" He did.
I looked around and saw 3 big green garbage bags. Reluctanly I got out of the car, walked over to the bags, opened one and inside were freshly dry cleaned drapes. Beautiful and the color perfectly matched the carpeting in our living room. My heart skipped a beat, no several beats. "Lord, this just cannot be. Oh my, will they fit that hugh window in the living room?
I opened the other bags and all of them were filled with drapes and curtains. I really got bold then. I said "Lord, we just need curtain rods now." We went around a corner and there laying on the curb was a box full of curtain rods including the draw string kind we would need for the living room drapes.
When we got home we put up the rod in the living room, holding our breath we hung the drapes and they were an absolutely perfect, I mean perfect fit and they were lined to keep out the cold that seeps through windows in older houses.
You see we had no drapes or curtains in the house, just could not afford to buy them. All the windows were odd sizes and they would have to be custom made. We had dfolded sheets on every window in the house. In the winter sheets do not keep out the Michigan cold.
Curtains and drapes are such a small thing but . . .
Katherine Bowen
(Submitted 02//7/2006)


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Future of Software
Technical note: For convenience, I'll use the terms closed-source and commercial software interchangeably here though they're not quite the same thing.
Unlike most of my articles, this is a casual opinion piece that I freely acknowledge is speculative. It's subject to change and may evolve quite a bit.
Let's think about software as a commercial product. Specifically, software as a discrete object that comes in a box or on a CD. Programs ranging from consumer desktop applications such as office suites to business software such as accounting systems.
My thesis is that the old market for software of this type is dead. Not gone, certainly, but dead nonetheless. It's the proverbial dinosaur that has been shot and killed but is so large that it won't notice its death for a while.
I won't attempt to prove this thesis but I'll comment on some of the issues involved.
There will always be corporations. Many of them will always sell and/or buy software. But the software market is evolving just as media is changing (and newspapers have already changed). FOSS is one of the factors involved.
As background information, FOSS has at least two major camps; Free Software and Open Source. For more on the differences, click here.
I'm more in the Open Source, or less radical, camp, but I heard from somebody recently who imagined I was in the Free Software, or more radical, camp. He wanted to vent his frustration at the changes I've referred to.
His views were typical of some of those developers who feel threatened by FOSS. They talk about how FOSS is produced only by corporations and by "losers" living in their "parents' basements" and how this is temporary. If corporations would simply end their support, the reasoning goes, FOSS would go away and things would return to the way they were.
In other words, it would be 1989 again, a few corporations would control the market, and programs would mostly come in shrinkwrap boxes. Or perhaps be downloaded with the aid of a credit card from tightly controlled online outlets.
It's a fantasy. Microsoft was aware of this by the late 1990s. You may wish to review the Halloween documents click here for more information.
What Microsoft realized is that FOSS, quite simply, is a superior development model. Closed-source fans might point at the fact that FOSS projects often fail. This is a red herring. If a FOSS project achieves critical mass, it may be inferior feature-wise to the best of the competition in the closed-source world. However, its development will ultimately scale with the Internet. Closed-source can't begin to compete with this.
Additionally, closed-source isn't exactly a bargain in some respects. Here are the "benefits" that customers get from it:
- Slow evolution compared to FOSS
- More bugs and slow maintenance cycles
- Focus on hiding security issues as opposed to disclosing and correcting them
- Customer support relegated to largely untrained non-native language people located in other countries
- Excessive timidity when it comes to addressing software patents (which are not even recognized in some venues) or intellectual-property issues in general
- Backdoors added for the use of corporations and governments
- Spyware that feeds as much information as possible back to corporations and governments
- In some cases, FOSS simply works better. Note that Microsoft ran its own Get the Facts anti-Linux ad campaign on FOSS servers!
- Planned obsolescence. Closed-source software isn't supposed to last because vendors need people to purchase new copies.
- Most importantly, lock-in based on closed standard (customers must not be free to switch to alternative products)
Put it all together and the handwriting is on the wall. The move away from closed-source software started back in the 1990s and has been building up steam slowly but surely ever since. Microsoft's old models for growth are finished though the company itself is in no danger. FOSS rules inside a variety of devices. In some cases, entire nations now mandate that open-source be used instead of closed-source for government purposes.
Does this mean that commercial software is going to go away? No. There is a trend that dates back to the 1990s and now aims to compete with FOSS: Software as a Service. The goal is simple: Regain the control over users that is being lost. The approaches involved are equally simple:
- Get users to think of software as something that is rented and not owned
- Persuade users to turn over their data to giant corporations that will generously protect but ultimately own it
Which way will things go? The answer is that all sides will exist. But shrinkwrap software as king of all it surveys is done for.
A great deal more should be written about this. But I am out of time for now.