Software giants crowding roundtable at ISO

Courtesy Enterprise Linux Log  Wed, 04/09/2008 - 14:54

 Open source software’s (OSS) success has software giants like Microsoft running scared, OSS pioneer Bruce Perens says. Although OSS such as Nagios, Samba, Apache and other programs are used in most IT shops today, the open source community is still in a vulnerable spot as software vendors use their patents to gain unfair market advantage and, even, take control of OSS products and standards.

I talked with Bruce recently, and our topic was what IT managers need to know and...

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