“I read Iain Ferguson’s ‘Linux: Time to take the next step’
piece recently and thought he had captured the zeitgeist of the
Linux industry market well: if we were still in 1998.“But this is no slight on Iain.
“He’s calling it as he sees it. It’s the open source industry
which hasn’t done the best job of articulating where it stands.
Something we intend to rectify in the coming months…”
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