Once upon a time, all the commercial software companies completely ignored open source software, thinking that if they did so, it would never gain legitimacy. How they must pine for those days. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, is now naming Linux in particular and open source in general as a key competitor for the company. When I look at the big picture, it is truly staggering how far Linux has come.
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Once upon a time, all the commercial software companies completely ignored open source software, thinking that if they did so, it would never gain legitimacy. How they must pine for those days. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, is now naming Linux in particular and open source in general as a key competitor for the company. When I look at the big picture, it is truly staggering how far Linux has come.
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