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Linux and Open Source in Scientific American

Posted by Hemos on from the good-press-coverage dept.

Cory Williams writes " Scientific American has a nice little article about Open Source and its superiority to commercial software: "The Best Things in Cyberspace Are Free". Not like we didn't already know this. "

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  1. Not enough info for newbies by slim · · Score: 3

    It's nice to see this kind of article in the press -- but did you notice that nowhere does the article actually explain what Open Source *is*.

    I've noticed this in many, many mainstream press articles -- they either merrily drop phrases like "open source" without pausing to explain, or they use "free" to mean "free beer"... or worse they describe Linux/Apache/GNU/whatever as (argh) "public domain".

  2. scientific american article posted @7:51 by Hemos by wolf · · Score: 2

    we should all take the last paragraph to heart.