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Forbes: The Open Source Heretic

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“Since 1993, Larry McVoy has been one of the closest allies to
Linus Torvalds, creator of the open source Linux operating
system.

“Yet after all these years, McVoy has come to believe that the
open source business model, which is all the rage these days among
computer makers like Hewlett-Packard and IBM, cannot generate
enough money to support the development of truly innovative
software programs…”


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Forbes/The Register: A Setback for Linux [The Register
article is apparently part one to this Forbes article.
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