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:Silicon.com: Opinion: 2006--The Year for Open Source
Silicon.com: Opinion: 2006--The Year for Open Source
Jan 12, 2006, 00 :15 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (11272 reads)

(Other stories by Simon Moores)

"My last column on open source provoked the inevitable remarks I've come to expect every time I pop my head above the parapet, take a deep breath and attempt to take an objective look at the progress of open source software (OSS), which I've been doing since I was one of the first columnists to take an interest in 'penguin' evolution.

"Once again, I expect to be shot down in flames by the open source groupies. I sometimes wonder if the author Salman Rushdie gives an occasional sigh of relief that he wrote the Satanic Verses and not a column on Linux..."

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