Naturally . . . ? I think not.
"Naturally I only want to address Linux, this being an open source blog and all."
That's not natural at all. Linux is not the sum total of "open source", it is not synonymous with "open source", and it is damned far from the only thing interesting about "open source". Firefox, Chromium, MySQL, and OpenOffice.org are all open source applications with name recognition in the same general league as Linux, and some of those are probably more widely deployed. LibreOffice and PostgreSQL are quickly catching up as regards name recognition as well. SQLite is not so well known, but is probably more widely deployed than all of them put together (especially considering it is a dependency of Firefox). The various BSD Unix systems collectively comprise the invisible giant in the realm of other open source OSes. Darwin OS is a far more widely deployed open source desktop OS than all the Linux distributions put together (if we neglect Android), as the basis for Apple MacOS X. As horrible a piece of software as it is, let us not forget WordPress, which powers a substantial percentage of the "blogosphere", including TR.
It's fine you decided to write an article about Linux-related news in 2011. Go for it. It's the subject you know best within the realm of open source software, and it's great at drawing eyeballs to TechRepublic. Claiming, however, that it's somehow natural for you to focus specifically on Linux just because this is the "open source" column at TR is to give the world of people who know better the impression that you probably don't know much about open source software at all.
You might want to watch that, in the future.
