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The Inevitability of Open Source Windows

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 15, 2008

[ Thanks to rm
for this link. ]

The FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) Community knows, thanks to
leaked Microsoft internal documents, that since about 1998
Microsoft has been in a sort of war against them. Because of this,
it is not surprising that the FOSS community has looked at
Microsoft with suspicion and has vilified it to no end. But, is
Microsoft really evil?

“The reality is that Microsoft is just a company. It is a
company that was at the right place at the right time (when the PC
was created) and this brought a lot of success. Of course, there
was a lot of hard work and good talent involved…”


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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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