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Phony open source to be a 2010 trend

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“Open source has been the coming thing for years.

“For 2010 it’s the thing.

“Even Microsoft is touting open source capabilities in Microsoft
Office and Windows 7, notes Siteworx founder Tim McLaughlin. (This
is actually a skateboard ramp design from the GOPED Message
Board.)

“Those claims may be easy to dismiss or laugh off, but if
Microsoft is trying to get some open source street cred then
everyone else is too. And there are now thousands of programs where
elements of open and closed source are mixed.”

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