Electronic Design: Linux: From Academics To The Real World | Linux Today

Electronic Design: Linux: From Academics To The Real World

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 6, 1999

“Today, Linux, a spry seven-year-old operating system (OS),
is considered the fastest-growing OS in the world.”

“The applications, enablers, communication software, or
utilities that run on Linux can be sold for any price that the
market will bear, and source code doesn’t need to be distributed.
The GPL’s requirement is that any code that is licensed under the
GPL must stay under it…”


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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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