Considering a switch to Ubuntu? Here's a great little guide, available for online viewing or as a downloadable PDF. It's very concise and full of interesting information about this wonderful operating system.
For such a small package, there's a lot of useful information ranging in scope from getting and installing Ubuntu, creating documents and presentations with OpenOffice.org, surfing the web with Firefox, administering your network connections or working on the command-line in terminal. A worthwhile read for anyone considering switching to Ubuntu, and detailed enough to be useful to experienced users.
Click on the link or the guide's cover-image to navigate to the Ubuntu Pocket-Guide's Home-Page

Guide authored by Keir Thomas and published by MacFreda Publishing.

Why Software Should Not Have Owners by Richard Stallman

Digital information technology contributes to the world by making it easier to copy and modify information. Computers promise to make this easier for all of us.

Not everyone wants it to be easier. The system of copyright gives software programs "owners", most of whom aim to withhold software's potential benefit from the rest of the public. They would like to be the only ones who can copy and modify the software that we use.