9 Biggest open source stories of 2015 | Linux Today

9 Biggest open source stories of 2015

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Swapnil Bhartiya
Dec 29, 2015

2015 was an extremely good year for open source, in general. Enterprise customers embraced open source at an unprecedented rate. Not only that, arch rivals came together to work on shared technologies like Cloud Foundry and OpenStack. And we saw traditional proprietary companies like Microsoft and Apple release their software as open source. It was an exciting year.

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Swapnil Bhartiya

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