[lug] "The best known of these projects is Linux . . . "

[bill ehlert]

  from today's New York Times:

Governments around the world, afraid that
Microsoft has become too powerful in critical
software markets, have begun
working to ensure an alternative.

More than two dozen countries in Asia, Europe and
Latin America, including China and Germany, are
now encouraging their
government agencies to use "open source" software
— developed by communities of programmers who
distribute the code
without charge and donate their labor to
cooperatively debug, modify and otherwise improve
the software.

The best known of these projects is Linux, a
computer operating system that Microsoft now
regards as the leading competitive
threat to its lucrative Windows franchise in the
market for software that runs computer servers.
The foremost corporate
champion of Linux is I.B.M., which is working
with many governments on Linux projects.


  the rest of the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/technology/05CODE.html





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