"It was early '99 when I made the jump. I installed SuSE 6.1 and started to poke around. It was like I was a kid in a candy store with no spending limit. Oh sure, there were some things I didn't quite figure out right away, but I had time, lots of time. We got the source code too. It was like walkin' into a room and findin' a safe on the table, with the combination written on the door. I had Linux workin' for me and I had everything I needed, and more. No blue screens, no rollin' over and dying just from clickin' the mouse button too many times or lookin' at too many fonts," says Paul Tatham as he talks about his shift from Windows to Linux.