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...open-source movement is based on programmers' writing software and then giving it away, with coding for all to see. Every programmer who uses it is free to improve on it, in the process creating constantly improving, free software. But while Linux, the open-source operating system, runs on about a quarter of servers, it is relatively rare on home computers because it has been just too hard for nonexperts to use...
Gnome's goal--and de Icaza's--is to make life easier on the open-source barricades. The Gnome computer desktop comes bundled with many versions of Linux and gives it an easy-to-use interface. And Gnome is promoting development of programs that will provide the same ease of use for open-source word processing, spreadsheets and other software tools...
This month Congress will consider ways to increase the use of Medicare's hospice benefit. Senator Charles Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Special Committee on Aging, wants to clarify Medicare's requirement of a six-month life expectancy as a guideline, not a hard rule. (Reformers hope Congress will formally declare it an average instead of a cap.) Senators Susan Collins, a Republican, and Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat, also plan to introduce a more general end-of-life health-insurance plan...
...which made walking difficult, then rise into his chest, which made breathing as laborious as "trying to blow up a balloon in a bowl of Jell-O," he said. Unable to get comfortable, he slept sitting up, just an hour or so at a stretch. He was reluctant to use enough medication to quell the pain. "On a good day, I would guess the pain is life affirming. It lets him know he's still here," said Dara...
...both comely Internet coquettes, have been engaged in a brutal war over who owns the title of Most Downloaded Woman. Margolis, who appears scantily clad--but clad--on her website, has been downloaded 7 million times, while Ashe, who poses nude, has been downloaded 8 million times. (Some people use the Internet for pornography.) On numbers, the Guinness Book of World Records awarded the crown to Ashe. Seems fair, but Margolis countered that her images are available for free, while Ashe's require a subscriber fee. Logically that makes Ashe even more deserving, but nonetheless the Guinness people have indulged...