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Open source: from side to center stage

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DW
Don Watkins
Jun 25, 2015

It was 1997 when I received an email from my brother asking me if I had heard of Linux. At the time, I had not, but soon after I was browsing through a computer store when I happened upon a box that contained “Red Hat Linux 5.0.”

DW

Don Watkins

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