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Free Software Magazine: Promoting Free Software on Non-Free Platforms

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 6, 2005

“In a recent discussion on the Slashdot web site, free software
users and advocates raised the question of whether the KDE project
should be ported to the Microsoft Windows platform. Advocates for
porting the KDE desktop environment made the argument that porting
KDE to Windows would enable a new population of users to experience
the software and that this exposure would entice these new users to
seek out and adopt free software for use in their daily computing
lives…”


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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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