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COMPUTERWORLD: Linux gets real

If you had told me six months ago that an operating system
written by a college student and given away free on the Internet
would be one of the major news stories of 1998, I would have
laughed.

But Linux has become a legitimate industry phenomenon at
breathtaking speed. And I suspect it’s set some pulses to racing at
Microsoft.

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