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IT Week: Will Windows with Unix See off Linux?

“Autodesk may be the latest software vendor to use open-source
development to its advantage. In case you missed the news, the firm
recently cancelled plans for a new product called MapGuide and gave
the source code to the open-source community.

“And such ‘dumping’ of what some like to call intellectual
property to open-source developers is not just being done by
mid-sized software vendors like Autodesk: the mighty Sun recently
turned its Solaris operating system into an open-source
project…”


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