rootninja

The food and restaurant industry might be down across the board, but some areas seem to be doing quite fine. Amazon is reporting record sales this year. http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/daily-news/081230-Amazon-Reports-Record-Holiday-Sales/

I was in a mall today and saw a line 20 deep in the food court for Taco Bell. People gotta eat, and they need their latest and greatest software too. I’m sure the net is lagging behind the economy, but in some regards I guess it might not turn out to be a bad year for Linux. I’m sure the usual suspects will be feeling a nasty bite soon and although they might not really have their hearts behind anything that has to do with free, according to Bruce Byfield, “when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in open source or the promotion of free software idealism, experts see FOSS as starting from a strong base and actually benefiting from the hard times expected next year.” http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3793286/Linux+in+2009:+Recession+vs.+GNU.htm