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[News] NZ Herald: Open Source Revolution is Won

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| At one level, the open-source revolution has been won. When you use a
| Nokia phone, trade on eBay or do a Google search you're using
| open-source technology. Open-source pioneers such as Richard
| Stallman, founder of the free software movement, fiercely believed in
| the need to liberate cyberspace from the grip of proprietary vendors
| such as Unix and Microsoft.
| 
| They enabled Swedish student Linus Torvalds to prove - with the invention
| of the Linux operating system - their basic point, that computer codes
| and standards that are freely used, modified and re-distributed create
| more robust and flexible solutions than those emanating from
| proprietary vendors.
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                        http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0606/S00555.htm

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