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Salon.com: Is Linux The Real Remedy?

[ Thanks to Ville Oksanen
for this link. ]

The open-source camp welcomes the findings of fact. But
some think that Linux doesn’t need the courts to beat
Redmond.

“To advocates of open-source software, Judge Thomas Penfield
Jackson’s finding that Microsoft unfairly wields monopoly power is
less than revelatory. As open-source evangelist Eric Raymond noted
while reading through the findings of fact: “If Microsoft didn’t
deserve this so richly I would say it was brutal — I’ve seen
nothing here with which I would disagree.”

“Except for one thing, “I think he underestimates the
competitive threat of Linux,” says Raymond.”


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