Missing links.
The writer compares free computer software to Microsoft's expensive commercial software. He describes his own experience using various free software products on his UNIX operating system and some of the difficulties he experienced. He points out that Microsoft software conceals all the complexity...
| Published in: | New Statesman Vol. 128; no. 4434; pp. 49 - 51 |
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New Statesman Ltd.
May 3 1999
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