Open free-for-all
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- Open Source Strategies, June 2002
There are more than 150 commercially available variants of the Linux open source operating system. Could that be its downfall?
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With backers such as IBM and HP, Linux itself looks set to continue to grow at an exponential rate, even if many of the low end providers embedded Linux or Linux services perish. And, say analysts, over time, the open source revolution will start to look more and more like the mainstream. Over time, control of the future directions of Linux will increasingly be in the hands of larger companies. The bazaar will be run by the people building the cathedral.
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