Why would I want to install Ubuntu — or any form of Linux?
Linux is free — in many senses of the word. It costs nothing, and it’s also free of corporate control and restrictions on how you can use your media. That recently prompted digital-rights advocate Cory Doctorow to switch from Apple Computer software to Ubuntu. He was concerned, for example, about Apple’s proprietary software locking up his personal data. “Every day, I add thousands of e-mails to my e-mail repository,” he said. “And for so long as Mail.app is using proprietary stores, that’s an ever-growing liability.
Linux is free — in many senses of the word. It costs nothing, and it’s also free of corporate control and restrictions on how you can use your media. That recently prompted digital-rights advocate Cory Doctorow to switch from Apple Computer software to Ubuntu. He was concerned, for example, about Apple’s proprietary software locking up his personal data. “Every day, I add thousands of e-mails to my e-mail repository,” he said.
