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Freshmeat: OSS to replace shrink-wrapped software?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 20, 1999

Highlights some aspects of the software industry and shows how
to compete in today’s closed market by changing the market.

The author, Ronald Kuetemeier, “worked for 13 years on an
advanced distributed system, from the early days of UNIX networking
to Jini lately. Throughout his career at a fortune 500 company
Ronald Kuetemeier got involved with strategies by working in what
it is normally called a ‘Think Tank’.

“For the OSS community Ronald Kuetemeier provides Mist, a
distributed Object system, and he is working on a networked spell
checker for small or distribute ‘appliances’. Basically providing
ispell or aspell services over the network, by using Mist
technology.”

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OSS to replace shrink-wrapped software?

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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