Storming the Gates.
The U.S. Department of Justice is engaged in an antitrust case against Microsoft, but a bigger threat to the company could come from open-source software. Unlike the commercial software of company's like Microsoft, open-source software is intended to be studied and improved upon by other programmer...
| Published in: | American Prospect Vol. 11; no. 10; pp. 35 - 40 |
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American Prospect
March 27-April 10 2000
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