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Recession and the Victory of FOSS
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| The interesting side effect of that was the sudden realizations by these
| companies and individuals such as “Wow, FOSS is actually better!” or “Wow,
| and we get all this for free?” And what's even more interesting is how not
| only are these companies not going back to previous proprietary solutions,
| they're actually telling their friends and fellow businesses about FOSS.
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| And all it took was a simple recession to finally give FOSS and Linux the
| kick in the pants it needed. And if you don't believe me, look at how
| Microsoft is taking hit after hit after hit against it's empire. If we were
| in an economic boom, that wouldn't be happening. But since we're not, it is.
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http://www.raiden.net/articles/recession_and_the_victory_of_foss/
If open source has won, then where do we go from here?
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| Supporters of open source are fond of quoting Mohandas Gandhi: “First they
| ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Did
| he happen to say what happened after that?
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/05/28/if-open-source-has-won-then-where-do-we-go-from-here/
Recent:
Russia To Develop a National Operating System
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| "According to Russian media, the Russian Government is going to develop a
| National Operating System (Google translation; Russian original) to lower its
| dependencies on foreign software technology licensing. The Russian plan will
| base its efforts on Linux and expects a worldwide impact. Microsoft is also
| involved in the roundtable process that led to the recommendation. The
| Chinese government successfully lowered its Microsoft licensing costs through
| an early investment in a national Linux distribution. I wonder if other large
| markets, such as the European Union, will also develop their own Linux
| distributions or join in the Russian initiative."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F23%2F1450224&from=rss
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