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10-Year Anniversary of Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the corks-a-poppin dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Saturday is the 10-Year Anniversary of Open Source, the initiative to promote Free Software to business. Obviously, it's been incredibly successful. I've submitted a State of Open Source message discussing the anniversary of Open Source, its successes, and the challenges it will face in the upcoming decade."

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  1. Another anniversary for your diaries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    March 6th is the 5th anniversary of SCO v IBM.

  2. Will it survive that long? by davidwr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SCO could do the right thing and pull a Mitt Romney and file for chapter 7 today.

    Unlikely but one can hope.

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  3. Wrong title by jrothwell97 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The first open-source software was created around 13,700,000,000 years ago, and remains so stable that it runs to this day, and is expected to do so indefinitely. However, its creator, God, forgot to document it. Therefore we have to write universe-HOWTO.html ourselves.

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  4. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY IS A FAGGOT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This post brought to you courtesy of the First Amendment.