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USA Today: Casual Cult Grows Around Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 24, 1999

Thanks to TWD for this link.

“The open-source world carries something of the 1960s in it.
It’s about overthrowing a top-down, hierarchical, capitalist system
and replacing it with something individual-centered and
fundamentally egalitarian.”

“Not that it isn’t fun. This isn’t the ’60s of placards and
protests, but of be-ins and expanding consciousness. Or in the case
of the Linux operating system, install-fests and the road trip
called Bierwanderung.”

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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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