Going hybrid.
Focuses on the outlook for the open-source software movement. Problems such as the campaign of Microsoft against programs such as Linux, the free computer operating system; Background on the movement and the need for firms to become proprietary; Indication that Red Hat is going hybrid with a versio...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 364; no. 8283; pp. 57 - 59 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
7/27/2002
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| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| Summary: | Focuses on the outlook for the open-source software movement. Problems such as the campaign of Microsoft against programs such as Linux, the free computer operating system; Background on the movement and the need for firms to become proprietary; Indication that Red Hat is going hybrid with a version of Linux that is not entirely open-source; Efforts of Oracle and others to undermine the market power of Microsoft and Sun Microsystems; Issue of the general public license and intellectual property. |
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