“The software giant Microsoft is waiting to see what sanctions
will be imposed on the ruling that the company had abused its
monopoly position.”
“But Microsoft is also facing another challenge in the battle
for control of the internet. Away from the public spotlight, it is
also having to deal with the growing threat from a rival software
program called Linux….”
“The result of this open source approach is that there are
thousands of Linux programmers, both amateur and professional, who
have ironed out the bugs in the software making it very
reliable.“