The Linux World conference wraps up this week in the Javits Center. Attendees are strategizing to hasten the spread the operating system which was invented as a free alternative to Microsoft's Windows OS and now occupies a large share of several market niches. Could it be a new model for cooperative computing? Also on the show, hispanics outnumber blacks in the United States--what now? And can Mayor Bloomberg squeeze a commuter tax out of Albany?
Bad Europe! Bad!
Richard Wolffe, senior diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek on which European countries will go along with Bush’s war on Iraq.
La Población Hispánica Crece
Howard Jordan, columnist for Hoy and host of Urban Affairs, a program on WBAI says being the second-biggest is a mixed blessing
Pick up a Penguin
Richard Waters, west coast editor of the Financial Times on the mainstreaming of the Linux operating system
Follow the Money
E. J. McMahon, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, on the excesses of New York City government
The Shipp Has Landed!
E.R. Shipp, columnist for the New York Daily News, on how Bloomberg is doing so far
Casualties of Consensus
Eric Larson, senior policy analyst on national security at RAND www.rand.org, on public opinion on the war
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