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Toward an Open Source Society
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| Gandhi famously remarked, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
| then they fight you, then you win." Linux marked its entry into the winning
| phase on January 30, 2007, the day Microsoft unleashed Windows Vista on a
| defenseless computing public. Four years late, horribly slow, saddled with a
| restrictive DRM system and severely lacking in hardware support, Vista
| destroyed forever the idea that software is best developed by a bureaucracy.
| Facing a user revolt, Microsoft was forced to allow
| computer makers to continue selling Windows XP simply to prevent a mass
| defection to OS X and Linux.
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http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080714110330619
Projects on the Move
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| A good camera is no guarantee of a usable photographic panorama – you need
| some software to help piece individual images together in, for example, GIMP.
| The community has a solution for this problem, and its popularity is growing
| to keep pace with the popularity of stitching.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/issues/2008/93/projects_on_the_move
What's the price of Windows now? $18? Free in some part of the world. Given
with free hardware too in South Africa?
Recent:
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| Microsoft: A prominent example of open source software is the Linux operating
| system [...] To the extent open source software gains increasing market
| acceptance, sales of our products may decline, we may have to reduce the
| prices we charge for our products, and revenue and operating margins may
| consequently decline.
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http://www. microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
Microsoft sees slide in profits
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7366106.stm
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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