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Last week's column on Open Source that got me in trouble with some readers.

Free software isn't necessarily Open Source, you know, though most is.

Here's an interview that does a good job of contrasting the idealism of Free Software with the pragmatism of Open Source. Funny, most of the Open Source people who are bugging me lately seem to be doing it for idealistic reasons. Maybe they are in the wrong camp.

The very professional (though not-for-profit) Eclipse IDE page.

I am writing this week from Charleston, SC, where they have these things called "Palmetto Bugs," which my wife tells me in any other city would be simply called "big-ass roaches."