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Re: [News] "Open Source isn't just hype; it's now the way most developers make software"

  • Subject: Re: [News] "Open Source isn't just hype; it's now the way most developers make software"
  • From: High Plains Thumper <hpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:48:36 +0900
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> It's not just Linux: Open Source has arrived
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft Corporate VP Gerri Elliott, who oversees Microsoft's public
> | sector business, also sits on the U.S. Secretary of Education's
> | Commission on the Future of Higher Education. Elliott managed to strike
> | from a recent report language that advocated incentives to promote the
> | development of open-source and open-content projects at universities and
> | colleges across the U.S. after the report had been voted on.
> |
> | While Microsoft may have won its battle with a committee, however,
> | IDC's results show that it's losing the programming war as more and
> | more programmers are flocking to open source.
> `----
> 
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8445673704.html

It is a good example of the fox watching the hen house.

-- 
HPT

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