sleepcamel.net : brad weikel

I've been meaning to get back into the whole "personal blog" thing, but I've had a pretty brutal semester. But I guess there's no time like the present: 4am on a Thursday morning, after spending 9 hours in the library doing economics.

If occured to me this afternoon that open source software is better for the environment than closed source software. I did some googling and couldn't find any articles about this concept, so I decided to write my own.

Unfortunately, because it's finals week, this will be brief. So, here are the top three reasons that open source software helps the environment.

1. Open source software saves packaging. That's less plastic and less paper being wasted.

Probably the most uninteresting thing I wrote during my first semester at Georgetown was a short review of the Green Party's national website (www.GP.org). The assignment was pretty basic, and so the result was fairly bland... a blow by blow critique of the website, based on a set of criteria provided by the professor.