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Wired: The Open Source Beer Hike

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 14, 1999

“The 40 or so participants in the Linux Beer Hike this week
in a narrow northern Bavarian river valley have stumbled on the
future.

“Linux? Well, yeah, sure, universally available operating
systems are something for everyone with a computer to think
about.

“Much more potentially sweeping is the idea of linking people
from all over the world via mailing lists and Web site posts and
assembling them somewhere to pursue their common fixation over
beers, beers, and more beers.”

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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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