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eWeek: Open Source: It’s Still All about Control

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“What do Microsoft’s offer to do a joint, independent research
project to analyze the benefits of Linux versus Windows, Miro
fighting with Mambo’s developers over Mambo management and Sun’s
Common Development and Distribution License all have in common?
They’re all about control.

“There is this delusion by some open-source opponents that
open-source and free software is some kind of wild-eyed,
long-haired socialist experiment by neo-hippies who don’t bathe,
don’t have real jobs and sneer at the capitalist, work-a-day
world…”

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