IT Week: Will Windows with Unix See off Linux?

"Autodesk may be the latest software vendor to use open-source development to its advantage. In case you missed the news, the firm recently cancelled plans for a new product called MapGuide and gave the source code to the open-source community.

"And such 'dumping' of what some like to call intellectual property to open-source developers is not just being done by mid-sized software vendors like Autodesk: the mighty Sun recently turned its Solaris operating system into an open-source project..."

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