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OSDir: To Evil!: Evil of August 2004

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 16, 2004

“How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free
software hacking world? For most of them, there’s no income to be
appraised, there’s no stock market valuation to watch. What value
can you give to these contributors, who work without care of
reward, except maybe all those groupies hanging out at the stage
door of the Sourceforge ftp servers?

“Well, I guess you could review their software or something.
Sadly, I suffer from a debilitating illness (which I shall not
mention here) that tragically precludes me from doing actual
research. So, instead, I have decided to evaluate those involved in
our so-called industry in terms of what we all, I think, see it
as.

“A battle between good and evil…”

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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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