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The State of GNU/Linux in 2002: It was Good.

Posted by michael on Wednesday January 1, 2003 @12:35PM from the well-duh dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This year has proven most interesting for GNU/Linux. While there was not any amazing surprises, there were numerous events that are noteworthy for review. The upshot to all of this is that most of what happened was good overall for the Free Software community. Read the full story."

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Re:Linux doesn't need money by NineNine · 2003-01-01 16:10 · Score: 1, Troll

You're right... free software doesn't need financial support to continue. There will always be a fresh group of young, naive, impressionable college kids to be taken advantage of. And I'm sure that IBM couldn't be happier about that.