ZDNet UK - News - SCO prepares to send invoices for Linux
I work in I.T. -- at least for now -- and I have been following Linux for many years now. This story cuts across thought streams: Community, Capitalism and Selfishness.
A monopoly in the Operating Systems is allegedly good for the consumer. We can buy any PC and know we can run whatever application we want and manipulate our data.
However, that same homogeneity has spawned viruses that at best an incovenience and at worse life threatening.
Enter Linux, a community project. An operating system that is free. Not free as in "free from cost", but "Free to modify". This is an important distinction.
more to follow...
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