For several years, my son has been telling me about free software, and I have failed to understand completely what he meant. I did not until recently understand that the freedom to change the software, which access to the source code provides, is far more important than lack of cost. This misunderstanding is widespread.
Liberated software liberates the programmer.
Once again I'm at work in front of my HP workstation, about to request more information on a software product I noticed in an LJ ad, that just might solve a problem a co-worker asked me about last week. I occasionally daydream about having time to explore my Linux system at home, but I consistently read LJ because its columns, articles, and advertisements give me information I use at work. Keep up the good work. Several times your articles have mentioned a guy from NASA who uses PVM instead of supercomputers, and that he gave a talk on it at a conference, etc. Please have him, or someone in attendance, paraphrase what he is doing, and perhaps speculate that nnn Pentium 90's equals such and such Supercomputer, at so many gigaflops, etc.