For a period of time I was the main Linux columnist at ZDNet, having written more than 100 articles. The stint ended during a columnist purge when ZDNet and CNet merged. Many of the pieces are still on the ZDNet site.

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• Hidden benefits: How Linux can salvage 'outdated' hardware (2001-08-14)


• Linux: Perfect for computer recycling (2001-07-22)


• Microsoft appeals to sanity (2001-07-17)


• Why Caldera's Linux business plan set off open-source wars (2001-07-10)


• Easy season for open source (2001-07-09)


• Another Linux hidden gem (apt-get) (2001-06-25)


• License to FUD (2001-06-18)


• Is BSD getting lost amid the open source salvos? (2001-06-10)


• Linux forklifts in the data warehouse (June 4, 2001)


• A GUI situation indeed (May 29, 2001)


• Darwin: A matter of privacy? (May 15, 2001)


• Microsoft's May Day manifesto ( May 7, 2001)


• Open source's black hole ( May 1, 2001)


• You can't always get what you font (April 25, 2001)


• Should OS vendors limit your choices? (April 16, 2001)


• Microsoft's campaign to help Linux on the desktop ( April 10, 2001)


• Linux needs a home Base ( April 5, 2001)


• Linux standard deviation impedes developers ( March 18, 2001)


• Walking the open-source tightrope ( March 5, 2001)


• Open source's quiet revenge ( February 20, 2001)


• Searching for a Linux supermodel ( February 12, 2001)


• From FUD to trash talk ( February 5, 2001)


• Why Linux is turning the tables ( January 29, 2001)


• Open-source penalty for Microsoft? ( January 23, 2001)


• Much ado about kernels ( January 9, 2001)


• Linux in 2000: Novelty no more ( January 2, 2001)


• LaTeX: A diamond in the rough ( January 2, 2001)


• Open licensing: their gain, your pain ( December 26, 2000)


• Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolves? ( December 13, 2000)


• A browser renaissance ( December 6, 2000)


• Should I stay or should I go? ( November 29, 2000)


• Time for an open-source rumble? ( November 21, 2000)


• The coders' collective ( November 15, 2000)


• Watching the world get Linux ( November 8, 2000)


• Linux gets that Tokyo glow ( November 2, 2000)


• OpenOffice politics ( October 24, 2000)


• StarOffice: Bigger, not necessarily better ( October 17, 2000)


• A question of leadership ( October 10, 2000)


• Penguins invade the orchard ( October 3, 2000)


• That (other) f-word ( September 26, 2000)


• Old Linux firm tries a comeback ( September 19, 2000)


• The AIX and pains of 64-bit computing ( September 12, 2000)


• It's the apps, stupid ( September 4, 2000)


• SCO Forum: This ain't no trade show ( August 29, 2000)


• Corel going south? ( August 21, 2000)


• The UNIX phoenix (August 6, 2000)


• Is the GPL really 'user hostile'? (June 13, 2000)


• Fatal flaw in BSD? ( June 5, 2000)


• Tough love for Microsoft users ( May 14, 2000)


• Are CDE and Motif Linux roadkill? ( January 31, 2000)


• Feeling Lucky? Try a hidden gem called Google ( July 23, 1999)


• Software Vendors Can't Get Glib over Library Issues ( March 2, 1999)


• An Unpleasant Trip to the Linux Library ( February 24, 1999)


• One of my favourites: Why Linux is Like Pizza (2001-03-16)


• Why MS wants to kill open source--and why you should care (2001-05-23)
• Just another manic Mundie (2001-05-20)


• Did Microsoft actually slight open source? Not really (2001-05-11)


• The nasty flip side to diversity: What's holding Linux back (2001-03-23)


• Can free Linux ever hope to make a buck? Yes. We tell you how (2001-03-05)


• Frigid but fun times in the open source world (2001-01-16)

','For a period of time I was the main Linux columnist at ZDNet, having written more than 100 articles. The stint ended during a columnist purge when ZDNet and CNet merged. Many of the pieces are still on the ZDNet site.