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Firms buy in to open-source software (Globe and Mail)

[Posted April 24, 2003 by ris]

Toronto's Globe and Mail looks at Linux adoption in Canada. "The potential impact on corporate computing and the technology marketplace is profound because this vast worldwide talent pool can create innovations, plug holes and fix flaws more quickly and more surely than any single company acting alone with limited resources, according to Chris Pratt, Linux manager for Markham, Ont.-based IBM Canada Ltd., who describes the open-source concept as "a Darwinian approach in which the strongest code survives."" (Thanks to Jim Gallacher)

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