[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“The term ‘open source’ is linked with software, and most
particularly with Linux, the operating system which, it is hoped or
feared, can challenge both Microsoft’s position on the desktop and
its ambitions to extend its empire into server space.“The theory is that Linux and other open source programs are
written by hordes of volunteers, each contributing his/her widow’s
mite of code, communicating at zero cost over the Internet, and
self-organizing their efforts without need for either the
incentives of markets or the commands of organizational
hierarchies. The proof that this model works, it is said, is all
around us: Linux itself; Apache, which runs over half the websites;
and other popular programs that are doing the work of the
world…”
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