Elegant wonking: Stephen Fry blogging
I’ve been looking sporadically at this blog that purports to be by Stephen Fry and keep not believing that it’s actually him — the tech is pretty deep, and surely he can’t be all the amazing things he is (novelist, performer, wit, historian) and a gadget getter. But he is. And look at this lovely pair of sentences about open source and the Asus EEE:
he two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan’t burden you with too much detail, I’ll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result.
I am writing this article on a kind of mini John the Baptist, a system that prepares the way of the software saviour whose coming will deliver the 90% of world computer users who suffer under Windows from the expensive, clumsy, costly, ugly, pricey toils of Microsoft.
The above passage is from a regular column he does for the Guardian. The blog is here.