Jared Whitehead

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Jared Whitehead is a tech writer and an aspiring historian who works with Appnovation Technologies, an open source consulting firm. Jared often blogs about the sociology of technology and how communities organized online are affecting the political and commercial sphere. In his free time, he enjoys reading (and annotating) biographies.

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Jared Whitehead
The rise of Drupal and the fall of closed source

Exactly, Robin. One of the biggest strengths of the open source community is its versatility, in my opinion. Seeing the new and exciting ways open source projects are being used, modified, and integrating with others (to say nothing of the way projects are influencing the software world at large) means that it is only expanding the number of opportunities devs have.

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Four Linux distros for kids

Jose Rizal! He is one of my favorite authors!

On a more relevant note, I agree that this is a terrific article. I know a lot of parents who recognize the need to integrate more awareness of technology into their kids' lives, but their solution seems to be tablets with games, which seem to end up stifling creativity more than promoting it. I'll definitely be getting the word out about these better alternatives!