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[News] Jon 'Maddog' Hall on the Roots of the Best Platform Today (Linux)

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Paw Prints: Writings of the maddog

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| I was working for Digital Equipment Corporation when I first met Linus and 
| facilitated the port of Linux onto the Alpha processor. 
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| During the port, a member of the community contacted me and asked if Digital 
| would contribute their math library to the Linux project, since Digital's 
| math library was a great deal faster than the one currently in use on the 
| Alpha Linux port. I easily got Digital to contribute the Digital Unix math 
| library in binary form, but they refused to make the library "open source" 
| because of the investment that they had put into it.      
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/paw_prints_writings_of_the_maddog/diy?blogbox


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Ballmer Still Searching for an Answer to Google

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| "Forty percent of servers run Windows, 60 percent run Linux," he said. "How
| are we doing? Forty is less than 60, so I don't like it. ... We have some
| work to do."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151568/ballmer_still_searching_for_an_answer_to_google.html
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