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CNet: The year ’98 in review–The Open Source movement takes off

Thanks to LandShark for
this link.

“The movement didn’t garner mainstream attention until January
of this year when Netscape announced that the source code for its
next browser suite, Communicator 5.0, would be open.”

“The most obvious beneficiary of the increased attention to open
source is Linux.”

Complete
story
.

if you have the time, the
entire year in review feature
makes excellent reading.

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