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Zend studio professional edition 9.0.35/21/2023 Despite the fact that it’s supposed to be a server OS (which is a whole separate issue), it felt like a single, integrated system. The graphics and feel of the system were tight and coordinated, the look and feel was sleek. That said, booting up into Windows for the first time in a long time was surprisingly joyful. I am no stranger to the quality of individual open source products, and I owe a debt of gratitude to developers around the world. I use Apache http Server and script with PHP and write some Perl. As a grateful user of download editions of Linux, desktop environments like KDE and Gnome, and applications like gaim,, and Mozilla Firebird, I rely heavily upon free software for my day to day work. However, installing and using has clarified some feelings, in my mind, about the success and shortcomings of open source software. Now, this is not a review of Windows Server 2003 or even an attempt to discuss it. That was about a month ago, and I’m using it now to write this. Knowing that I wouldn’t miss it, I blew it away and took a test drive of Windows Server 2003. I had an NTFS partition on my computer with Windows XP installed, but it rarely saw any action. Recently, Microsoft sent me an evaluation edition of their new Windows Server 2003. Where free software has an important place in computing, so does closed-source commercial software. According to the Free Software Foundation, free software includes “ the freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits… Access to the source code is a precondition for this.” While I agree that the principles of the FSF are noble, I also feel that there is an unspoken assumption – an assumption that pods of hobby developers across the world can coordinate on the same scale that directed companies with a budget can.
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