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WideOpenNews: Quote Machines

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 16, 1999

Terms are debated, jokes made, ideas defended. It’s just
another day at the Bazaar in New York.

“Lots of speeches but not much news at the Bazaar, a
virgin-cruise open source conference held this week in New York
that wraps up Thursday afternoon. One thing doesn’t change — open
sourcers know how to give good quote….”

“Bob Young, chairman, Red Hat:
“And they said, ‘If you tell him we are using this stuff, we will
come back and kill you.'”
— Message to Young from a group of Linux-using IT renegades in
1995, after Young told them their MIS director insisted no Linux
was installed at the major bank they all worked for.”

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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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