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Yahoo/AP: Microsoft Drowns Out Other Options

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 14, 2002

[ Thanks to Philip Webb for this link.
]

“Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation,
visited this information technology hub earlier this month to try
to persuade leaders that Microsoft and other purveyors of
proprietary software are poison.

“By Wednesday, it was clear he wasn’t winning.

“Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates had been handing out so many
freebies to India’s federal and state governments in the last three
days that talk of open-source software had started annoying
government officials…”

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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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