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Open Source Victories of 2008

Posted by kdawson on from the brief-look-back dept.

Meshach writes "Ars Technica has an interesting run-down on the major open source victories of 2008. Some, like Firefox 3, we can probably mostly agree on. Others — KDE 4 comes to mind — will be more controversial. And Mono 2? What else should be on the list?"

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  1. I like KDE 4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Others â" KDE 4 comes to mind â" will be more controversial.

    How is that controversial? Oh, the Gnome heathens? Well, they'll be dealt with in 09.
     
    2009 will be the Year of the Linux Desktop...Wars.

  2. Re:Google Chrome by djcapelis · · Score: 3, Funny

    What about Google Chrome? I know it's currently only Windows only, but it's a very good browser and Open Source.

    You mean the one that's the second item on the list in the article? That Google Chrome?

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