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If you are like me, you have well meaning co-workers that are starting to send you files from Office 2007, which OpenOffice 2.X can't grok, and 3.0 isn't due until September (which means it won't be usable until early 2010). In the mean time, here is a suitable workaround. Plug this bad-boy into your mailcap file and breath normally.

Talk of hardware drivers in Linux has been on everybody's lips lately. First, kernel uber-hacker Greg KH posted an offer for free kernel development on the LKML late last month. Needless to say, that re-opened the old wounds of flamewars past. Then, somebody at work sent this out which does a magnificent job of detailing the arguments from the hardware vendors. Obviously, as a pure software developer working for a hardware company, I have a strong opinion about this - that we should sell the stuffing out of our hardware, and give the drivers away to anybody who wants them. In fact, thats why I choose to work for a hardware company - its the only way I feel I can truly justify myself to my employer. If I happened to work for a software only company, its much harder for me to argue that we should give my work away. Of course, working for a hardware company has its disadvantages too - software folks are usually in a lower caste, and our necks are usually the first on the block when things go bad. But thats fine - I think its worth it to do what I believe in, and get paid too.