Samba, Soccer and Open Source (IT-Director)

[Posted April 1, 2005 by corbet]

Robin Bloor writes about free software in Brazil in this IT-Director column. "In 'The Road Ahead', Bill Gates himself wrote enthusiastically about the 'software ecosystem' that surrounded Microsoft in its early years. It made a huge contribution to the success of Windows, by creating an application-rich environment. The same kind of ecosystem now surrounds Open Source and it is growing quickly. I am amazed by its potential. It could completely undermine Microsoft's monopoly, and it probably will."

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