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sime

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Open Source on the Brink
« on: 16 September 2003, 00:32 »
In the next five years, open source "is going to take [the government] market away from Microsoft completely," predicts Eben Moglen, Columbia University law professor and Free Software Foundation general counsel.

And spot on he is too... Can't wait matey!  :D

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/22278.html

Bye, bye Billy boy... oh and take that crap software with ya!

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« Reply #1 on: 16 September 2003, 01:02 »
Actually it looks like he will have been talking about Free Software, not Open Source, but they've misleadingly edited his quotes to make it look like he was talking about OSS. Which is a bit naughty.
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« Reply #2 on: 16 September 2003, 01:51 »
You don't expect Microsoft to wait around for the executioner's ax to fall, do you ?
I am sure they have an exit strategy already planned.