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The Bangkok Post/LinuxInsider: An Odd Week in the World of Open-Source Software

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 20, 2005

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“The open source world shied away from neither controversy nor
absurdity last week as we all staggered forward under the weight of
some seriously heavy weirdness.

“My first warning that it might be an odd week came when a
senior executive from the OSDL told an interviewer from ITWeek that
‘enemies of Linux’ are conducting a systematic campaign of
disinformation that aims to undermine the enterprise credibility of
the open-source operating system…”


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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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