Open Source capitalists

Lawrence lawrence at krubner.com
Mon Aug 27 00:32:06 PDT 2001


There was a brief article today on osonline stating that IBM was giving up its unix OS and switching to Linux. That has interesting implications. The Open Source movement is the most successful communal effort ever at building something of value. Now a large capitalist power wants to stake its future on that movement. IBM is giving up AIX, something they've invested billions in over the years, and instead will try to be good members of the open source community. What will capitalism think of next?

http://osonline.org/linux/index.phtml?storyID=957



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