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How the Internet makes us stupid â or not
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| But heâs wrong about Linux. When Helsinki-
| born Linus Torvalds first posted a fledgling
| version of Linux on an obscure software
| bulletin board, no one â apart from the most
| diehard open source evangelists â would have
| predicted that open-source software would be
| much more than a short-lived hackersâ
| experiment. And yet, within a few short
| years Linux became the largest software
| engineering project on the planet and
| spawned a multibillion-dollar ecosystem that
| upset the balance of power in the software
| industry.
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| Today, Linux is used in everything from the
| smallest consumer electronics to the largest
| super computers. It helps run Germanyâs air-
| traffic-control systems. It also runs a
| number of nuclear power plants (whose names
| cannot be disclosed for reasons of national
| security). If you drive a BMW, chances are
| it is running Linux. And, at the time of
| writing, more than 500 million users of set-
| top cable boxes, TiVos, Android phones and
| other home appliances use Linux, and more
| than 1.5 billion people use it indirectly
| every day whenever they access Google, Yahoo
| or myriad other websites.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/review-you-are-not-a-gadget-a-manifesto-by-jaron-lanier/article1474160/
Piper Jaffray: 3 Firms To Grow Big In The Cloud
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| Still, I wasn't sure Red Hat had emerged as
| the overwhelming, dominant supplier of Linux
| to the cloud computing vendors. The report's
| authors note that all examples of the next
| generation, cloud computing data centers are
| running Linux, and more often than not, Red
| Hat Enterprise Linux. That would include
| Salesforce.com, Google and Amazon.com. In
| effect, cloud computing "leverages the
| compelling economics of open source
| components," Murphy and Schwartz wrote.
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http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/blog/archives/2010/02/piper_jaffray_t.html
Related:
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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