eWeek: Open Source Goes Main Street | Linux Today

eWeek: Open Source Goes Main Street

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Aug 4, 2005

“Five years ago, if you had asked most people if open-source was
a good basis for a business, they would have laughed at you. How
things change.

“Today, major open-source projects, like Mozilla’s Firefox and
Thunderbird and the Debian Linux distribution with the Debian Core
Consortium, are being transformed into businesses…”

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SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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