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Wall Street Embraces Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-time-for-different-reasons dept.

Brian Stretch was among several who sent in this story about Merrill Lynch switching to Linux, this is interesting because it's actually companywide. Talks about Red Hat, Linux threatening Unix and so on.

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  1. Re:Linux not really "free"? by swillden · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    This is definitely weird. Okay, so Linux is not free as in zero cost, because everything has a cost of ownership. Even with closed source software, license fees are only the beginning.

    But, the column explicitly mentions "large-scale licensing agreements". Huh? Support agreements, sure, but licensing? The software is already available under a very large-scale licensing agreement: the GNU General Public License.

    I'm confused.

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