New Scripting The Economist: Ubuntu Is The Source Of Linux’s Rise
Today,
The Economist makes three technology predictions for 2008, two of which concern web surfing and the third of which concerns everyone, whether they surf the web or not. The Economist’s third prediction is that the technology world will open up:
The embrace of “openness” by firms that have grown fat on closed, proprietary technology is something we’ll see more of in 2008….
Pundits agree: neither Microsoft nor Apple can compete at the new price points being plumbed by companies looking to cut costs. With open-source software maturing fast, Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox, MySQL, Evolution, Pidgin and some 23,000 other Linux applications available for free seem more than ready to fill that gap. By some reckonings, Linux fans will soon outnumber Macintosh addicts. Linus Torvalds should be rightly proud.
What’s most interesting about its analysis, however, is where it sees the biggest impact for open source (Linux) and why (Ubuntu):
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