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BusinessWeek: Open Season On Open Source?

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“In 1999, Ethan Galstad was thinking about starting a business
with a friend. Among other things on their to-do list was digging
up software to monitor their network and flag any problems. They
couldn’t afford any of the programs on the market, however, so
Galstad wrote his own. Almost on a whim, he posted it on an
open-source Web site where geeks around the world browse code and
download programs for free…”


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