iTweb: Defending Linux

"The Linux movement is growing rapidly, despite the litigation taking place at the moment, and has the potential to solve many of the issues that surround on-demand computing.

"This is the view of Sam Greenblatt, senior VP at Computer Associates (CA) and the organisation's chief Linux architect. He was discussing the impact of Linux during a technology trends session held at CAWorld in Las Vegas.

"'The first thing that needs to be cleared up is the misconception that open source equals free software. That is completely untrue. Open source simply means that the code is freely available to be used and modified,' said Greenblatt..."

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