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Wal-Mart, Moore's Law and Open Source

J.E. Kazor writes: "In MIT's 'Technology Review' magazine, Michael Schrage writes about Wal-Mart, Moore's Law, and Open Source. Perhaps instead of spending all of our energy bashing bashing the 800-pound gorilla, Microsoft, we should align the support of a 900-pound gorilla, such as Wal-Mart. Such a symbol of cost conscious efficiency should embrace the benefits of Open Source."

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  1. Someone are need an editor! by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "energy bashing bashing the 800 pound gorilla,..."

    "allign the support of"

    "efficiency should embeace the benefits of Open Source."

    How about, instead of cramming all these lameness hacks into slashdot, demonstrate the usefulness of Open Source by tying a spell/grammar checker into the perl slashcode, at least for submissions.

    Then again, the submitter may be an alias for CmdrTaco...

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