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Upside: Raiding the Cookie Jar

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 2, 1999

Thanks to chilestew for
this link.

“People don’t put the two together, but the Internet opportunity
was created by the open-source community,” O’Reilly says. “These
companies wouldn’t even be here today if it wasn’t for guys like
[bind architect] Paul Vixie and [UUNet founder] Rick Adams.”

“Just as the IBM PC blew the hardware market wide open, allowing
dark horse companies such as Microsoft and Lotus to make a killing
on the software side, Linux has the potential to detonate the
software market. If this happens–many Linux partisans say it
already has–who will have the best position in the resulting
rubble?”

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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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