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3rd June 2001 Archive

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  • Readers: "MS is the cancer"

    And Linux the cure?

    Our recent coverage of Steve Ballmer's comment that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself....to everything it touches" prompted quite a number of readers to e-mail us with their own takes on the open-source debate. Most of you allowed that there is a germ of truth in Ballmer's overstatement, namely that the GPL (which is but …

    Software 3 Jun 2001, 20:40

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