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Free Software Magazine: The Massive Failure of FOSS

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 22, 2007

“‘The open source software movement has been one of the
successes of the digital age’ or so says Clay Shirky of New York
University’s Graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program in the
latest issue of Harvard Business Review. Yes, sure, but he’s just
buttering us up.

“Mr. Shirky then goes on to mention the positive press Linux and
Apache receive in business publications. Subsequently he then
trashes the whole open source movement…”

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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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