A shared passion for software is what drives the open-source movement
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| The Free and Open-Source Software Developers' European Meeting (Fosdem) in
| Brussels attracts about 3,000 people every year, and last month marked its
| eighth edition.
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| With all the hype surrounding free and open-source tools - the operating
| system Linux, the web server software Apache, the web browser Mozilla
| Firefox - it is easy to forget the men (and, occasionally, women) who develop
| them. It is their shared passion for software that works the way they want it
| to that keeps this movement going, bringing innovation to computing and the
| web at a pace that proprietary software developers can only dream of.
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http://www.newstatesman.com/200803060043
People power transforms the web in next online revolution
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| An acclaimed thinker on technology explains how net users are, by banding
| together, changing every aspect of our lives
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| [...]
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| The motto of the generation growing up with the collaborative logic of the
| web is not the solitary 'I think, therefore I am', it is be the social 'We
| think, therefore we are'.
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| · We Think: Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production, by Charles Leadbeater, is
| published by Profile.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/internet.web20
No wonder Linux is Microsoft's #1 threat (see below again).
Recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| 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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