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Linux Journal: Getting Flat, Part 2

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DS
Doc Searls
May 2, 2005

“In Getting Flat, Part 1, I looked at what Tom Friedman says
about Linux and open source in his new bestseller, The World is
Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, and also in
‘It’s a Flat World, After All,’ a feature that ran in the April 10,
2005, edition of the New York Times Magazine. To sum both up, Tom
says the flat new world is one where ‘anyone with smarts, access to
Google and a cheap wireless laptop can join the innovation
fray..'”

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