When writing an article about how Linux is evil, it is a good idea to not do so using a website that is hosted on a series of Linux-based appliances. One of the things that always cracked me up about the anti-open source blowhards that used to (probably still do) dominate the Progress and Freedom Foundation's IPCentral blog is that their blog is managed by Movable Type, which is written entirely on an open source foundation. Suffice it to say, if you are a blogger, chances are your blog is based at least in part, if not entirely, on open source software. WordPress and Movable Type, the two largest blogging applications, are both open source applications.

Open source: because not everyone can afford a high-end Solaris server running Weblogic or Websphere and Oracle...

It's no secret that a key part of the success of open source software has been the desire of the people who use it to have the freedom to act like they own the code that runs on their computers. Open source software is often not the best software, but it is good enough for many tasks, and unlike proprietary, commercial software, it doesn't spy on you, limit the number of times you can reinstall it on the same hardware or treat you like a sharecropper on your own PC.