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Monday, August 29, 2005

What Business Can Learn from Open Source: Among the valuable insights in this philosophical piece are these gems:
1) 52% of companies are replacing Windows servers with Linux servers. ("... anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't.")
2) The emergence of really good open source (usually free) software is a Darwinian process that results from so-called "amateurs" who work for free because they love what they are doing. No company can inspire that kind of devotion to work by throwing more money at its employees. [Paul Graham]
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