Finally the word is getting out

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peragrin

Mar 26, 2004
4:19 AM EDT
With the way this man speaks the word is finally getting out to corporations.

Why their is no compition in software.

"The landscape is littered with the corpses of commercial software companies that went up against Microsoft," Kapor said.

What is about to come that we still have to get through.

Kapor also warned of the growing legal threats concerning software patents and intellectual property claims. But he noted that lawsuits such as those from The SCO Group are also symptomatic of open source's success. "You know you're (really successful) when the big-time parasites show up," he said, to much applause.

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