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By Roger Burkhardt | 09 December, 2008 10:19
Open source is dying -- or maybe it isn't
Put three geeks in a room and it won't take long to start an argument. Well, analyst Dennis Byron, veteran open source exec Stuart Cohen, and ex-Microsoft developer Keith Curtis weren't exactly in the same room, but all three have provocative opinions about the future of software in general and of open source in particular.
By Bill Snyder | 05 December, 2008 11:42
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