My name is Scott Granneman, and I use open source.

I'm typing this on an IBM ThinkPad running Libranet 2.8.1, a Linux distro based on Debian. My browser is Firefox (also runs on Windows & Mac), my office suite is OpenOffice.org (Windows & Mac too), and my text editor is vim (ditto). I read email with Kontact and IM with Gaim (Windows also). If I need to edit graphics, I use the GIMP (Windows & Mac), if I want to add an OGG digital music file to my vast collection, I use Grip and oggenc (Redmond & Cupertino too), and if I want to listen to that vast collection of OGGs, I use amaroK.

Web page creation? Quanta+. Screen captures? KSnapShot. Packet sniffing? Ethereal (Windows? Yeah. Mac? Yeah.). Genealogy? Gramps. Burning CDs? K3b. Watching videos? Kaffeine.

All open source. All excellent software - and always getting better.

Of course, this isn't a blog dedicated to open source on Linux - this is an blog dedicated to open source, period. Open source is most associated with Linux (and the other great free Unix, BSD), but there is a large and ever-growing open source movement for Windows and for Mac OS X. This blog will cover open source everywhere, no matter the OS, no matter the software, and no matter the creator - so yes, when Microsoft dips its toes a leetle bit further into open source waters, we'll discuss it. Keep me posted - if you find something I should mention, let me know. If I find something that rocks your world, discuss it. And if I screw up - which hopefully won't happen often - discuss it.

Open source is changing the world. This is the place to talk about it.