Now that President Obama has taken office at last, hopes are high around the globe for an era of recovery and change. Coincidentally, similar hopes were evident on the Linux blogs in recent days following last week’s lambasting of the Wisconsin college student who claimed that Ubuntu forced her to drop out of school. Throughout the blogosphere, Linux geeks not only pondered the ferocity of the verbal attacks that greeted her claim, but also turned their thoughts to related topics such as technology policies in higher education and Dell’s apparent open source ambivalence.
