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Those Heady Days of Sex, Drugs & Linux Are Over

Well, it looks like Richard Stallman, the father of FOSS, is going to have to cut his hair and get a suit because the warmed-over hippie movement he's been leading is no longer the radical anti-software establishment counter-culture his rag-tag army fancies it is. Nope, it IS the software establishment. That is the finding of the Standish Group, which after five years of research on open source has delivered a $1,000 report called 'Trends in Open Source,' a study that finds that FOSS is now costing software vendors $60 billion a year in annual revenues, and it's still only 6% of the global spend.

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#4	jonson commented on the 26 Apr 2008 So it means that FOSS is now saving software users $60 billion a year in ICT costs
#3	Drummer commented on the 21 Apr 2008 "Those Heady Days of Sex, Drugs & Linux Are Over" That's "Hedley". (with thanks to Mel Brooks).
#2	tracyanne commented on the 20 Apr 2008 quote>> Nope, it IS the software establishment. << quote That is exactly what we have been working all these years to achieve.
#1	Dean commented on the 20 Apr 2008 I'm sure Stallman would disagree with you. First, he objects to use of the term "open source" and he won't speak to you unless you call Linux by the name "GNU Linux". The hippie roots of free software and GNU-Linux are still firmly planted where they've always been (see the GPL). Corporations have taken the plants which have grown from these roots and decided to prune them so as to better fit into their business plans and make them money.

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