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BBC: The odyssey of Open Source software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 30, 1999

“Eric Raymond’s Winter Tour is now officially over but the
struggle to free program code all over the world goes on.”

“He believes the geek will inherit the earth and not
Microsoft.”

“He took to the road in January to spread the word, his two-week
tour taking in speaking engagements in Michigan, Oregon, California
and Indiana, then onto London and Durham in the UK and finally
Denmark and Sweden, where he addressed the world’s biggest Linux
users’ group.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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