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BBC News: Rewriting the Web

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 21, 1999

Thanks to Judge for this
link.

“A classic book, on a free software revolution that may
challenge the dominance of Microsoft, is itself being made freely
available over the Internet.

“Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution” was published in
January by O’Reilly & Associates in book form, but was this
week made available online on its Website.”

“The book promises to be as influential with programmers as Tom
Wolfe’s “The New Journalism” anthology was to the post 1960s US and
British media.

“‘Open Sources’ is important as a primary historical source,”
says Eric Raymond, “It is front-line reporting from the people who
were there when the wave broke.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

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