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Wired: Open Source Grows Up

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 11, 1999

“Look out, Redmond — the open source movement isn’t running
short on talent or momentum; it’s merely going commercial.”

“At an annual advanced-computing summit this week in Monterey,
California, academics, hackers, geeks, and network administrators
shared their growing ardor for collaborative coding, Apple, and
basically anything not Microsoft.”

“Attendees of the Usenix conference in the heart of John
Steinbeck country said there is no dearth of programmers who
support open source coding, only geographic constraints.”

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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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