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Data Communications: Open-Source Software — Power to the People?

“Linux and BSD Unix are starting to show up on more and more
corporate servers, running alongside or even replacing Netware and
Windows NT. That’s a pretty far-out scenario for “free”
software”

“It’s like a scene from the ’60s. On one side, the uptight,
buttoned-down agents of the corporate establishment. On the other,
the rebellious representatives of a wide-open counterculture that
wants to set the world free-or at least liberate a little corner of
it. The only things missing are love beads and peace signs.”

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