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The Motley Fool: The Death of Windows

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 20, 1998

Thanks to Francisco Burzi
for this link.

“Open Source products like Linux make no sense seen completely
from a producer’s perspective. Selling an otherwise free product to
compete against an entrenched monopoly has been called “the
business model from hell.” But from a consumer perspective it’s
wonderful. And not only is this model working, leaked internal
Microsoft documents show that it has Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) very
worried.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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