Salon: The free software story | Linux Today

Salon: The free software story

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 16, 1998

A complete, linked listing of Salon Magazine’s 1998 coverage of
Linux and the open-source movement.

Includes:

  • “You’ve got sendmail” by Andrew Leonard (12/11/98)
  • “Apache’s free-software” warriors by Andrew Leonard,
    (11/20/97)
  • “Windows on the wane?” by Scott Rosenberg (11/19/98)
  • “Martin Luther, meet Linus Torvalds” by Thomas Scoville
    (11/12/98)
  • “Microsoft’s Halloween scare” by Scott Rosenberg
    (11/04/98)
  • “The joy of Perl” by Andrew Leonard (10/13/98)
  • “The Richard Stallman Sago Redux” by Andrew Leonard
    (09/11/98)
  • “The saint of free software” by Andrew Leonard (08/31/98)
  • “The little operating system that could” by Andrew Leonard
    (06/26/98)
  • “Geek central” by Andrew Leonard (06/15/98)
  • “Talkin’ ’bout a revolution: Readers talk” (05/27/98)
  • “The Transmeta enigma” by Andrew Leonard (05/22/98)
  • “The dumbing-down of programming” by Ellen Ullman
    (05/12/98)
  • “Free the Windows source code?” by Scott Rosenberg
    (04/22/98)
  • “Let my software go!” by Andrew Leonard (04/14/98)
  • “Consider the source” by Laura Lemay (04/13/98)

Complete
story
.

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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