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  <title>The Green Philosopher</title>
  <subtitle>A rolling treatise on things...</subtitle>
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  <updated>2008-07-09T19:33:58-07:00</updated>
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    <title>Today I saw hope for the world. </title>
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    <published>2008-07-09T19:33:58-07:00</published>
    <updated>2008-07-09T19:33:58-07:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>justjohn</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p><img hspace="8" align="left" src="http://gatewaynode.com/sites/default/files/images/freedom_base_PD.png" alt="An image of open office base in action" />I went into a public library to quickly check the weather at a public terminal and what did I see on the desktop?&nbsp; Openoffice.org and a couple of GPL applications.</p>
<p>At first I stopped thinking about the weather.&nbsp; Could it be?&nbsp; Is the local government possibly adopting, at even this peripheral level, &quot;open source software&quot;?!?</p>
<p>Maybe we won't all die a Roman death, unaware that we squandered all our resources until it was too late.</p>
<p>Maybe we do have some hope for a bright future...</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><img hspace="8" align="left" src="http://gatewaynode.com/sites/default/files/images/freedom_base_PD.png" alt="An image of open office base in action" />I went into a public library to quickly check the weather at a public terminal and what did I see on the desktop?&nbsp; Openoffice.org and a couple of GPL applications.</p>
<p>At first I stopped thinking about the weather.&nbsp; Could it be?&nbsp; Is the local government possibly adopting, at even this peripheral level, &quot;open source software&quot;?!?</p>
<p>Maybe we won't all die a Roman death, unaware that we squandered all our resources until it was too late.</p>
<p>Maybe we do have some hope for a bright future...</p>
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