From maverick to mainstream: why open source software is now indispensable for modern business

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Older, more established ways of doing things simply don't measure up any longer

Free and open source software has a long and intriguing history. Some of its roots go all the way back to the 1980s when Richard Stallman first launched the GNU project. Stallman was frustrated by ...

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