Out the Windows

You don't have to be a radical to rebel against a convicted monopoly. "I like Microsoft's products - I just got tired of some of their business practices," says Rodd Ahrenstorff of Maple Grove, Minn., the son of Midwestern farmers and a middle-income family man. "There's also something very appealing about free software." So about three months ago, Ahrenstorff cast his lot with a rabble of loosely allied computer hackers. He loaded a home computer with their free operating system, Linux, and proudly made himself Windows free. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020114/tech/14linux.htm The U.S. News & World Report issue of January 14, 2002 has an interesting article about Linux in the Science & Technology section. dave