Free Software Has Lost
Open Source is winning and why this is a bad thing.
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Dear Ubuntu User Reader,
King Pyrrhus of Epirus was waging war against the Romans in the year 279 BC when he won the battle of Heraclea. Despite his victory, Plutarch comments on how "such a victory would utterly undo him [Pyrrhus] " because his army had suffered such tremendous losses.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols recently wrote a piece called "Linux and open source have won, get over it" for ZDNet. You can imagine how it went: Open source has made its way into all sorts of industries and is a success story everywhere, even Microsoft is coming around, and blah, blah, blah.
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