Previously, I’ve called out years for non-desktop Linux in 2008, Linux in both the low and high-ends of the market in 2009, ‘hidden’ Linux in 2010 and last year, cloud computing in 2011. For 2012, I see continued growth, prevalence, innovation and impact from Linux, thus leading to a 2012 that is dominated by Linux.
I expect to see nothing but continued strength for Linux and …
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Winning and losing
Matt Asay stirred things up with his declaration that free
software has lost and open source has won. Responding to Matt
Asay, Glyn Moody argued that without free software, open source
would lose its meaning, while Mark Stone explained that free
versus open source is not black and white - it’s more complex
than that.
Matt Asay later declared open source …
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