SF GATE: Open Sesame -- How Collab.net takes open-source to the next level | Linux Today

SF GATE: Open Sesame — How Collab.net takes open-source to the next level

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 15, 1999

[ Thanks to George
Mitchell
for this link. ]

“Wall Street hasn’t caught on to it yet, but Collab.net, Inc., a
San Francisco-based open source software start-up, is about to
revolutionize the multi-billion-dollar global software
industry.”

“The four-month-old company is giving open-source
programmers a chance to earn money doing what most of them
previously did for free.
The development promises to speed the
transformation of the open-source software movement from a techie
hobby into what will likely become a dominant force in the software
marketplace.”


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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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