As Linux Nips at Microsoft, Its Advocates Talk Numbers

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The Linux World conference that begins in New York tomorrow promises to be a staid, corporate affair. The speakers’ list is filled with corporate technology people who will be there to discuss the dollars-and-cents rationale for Linux, an operating system that is distributed free and developed according to open-source principles, in which programmers donate their labor to debug and modify the software cooperatively.

Link: NYTimes

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