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How Open Source Might Finally Become Mainstream

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @11:30AM from the how-mom-will-compile dept.

geegel writes "The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting article on how autocracies are now embracing open source, while at the same promoting national based IT services. The author, Evgeny Morozov, paints a bleak future of the future World Wide Web."

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Answer: They will laugh their ass off. by lalena · 2011-01-12 11:46 · Score: 4, Funny

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FTA: How will officials in Washington react when China's Tencent (with a market capitalization of $42 billion, almost twice that of Yahoo) or Russia's Yandex makes a bid for AOL?