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My college entrance essay...

...contains references to GNU, Mozilla.org, Netscape, NCSA Mosaic, The Great Firewall of China, Comcast, and RealNetworks. Should I scrap it and try harder to not let the "open-source extremist" in me show?

Print | posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:10 AM | Filed Under [ School ]

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# re: My college entrance essay...

Six years ago, I would have had the same reservations. Nowadays, however, I think Firefox and Ubuntu have caught on enough with mainstream consciousness so that discussing OSS doesn't automatically brand you as a dangerous person...
10/23/2008 5:20 PM | Andrew T.
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# re: My college entrance essay...

What happened to RealNetworks?<br /><br /><br />I know you will disagree on what I said, but there are merits of not open source.
10/25/2008 2:25 AM | Antony Shen

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