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Information Technology News Linux gets organized with merger of major open source groups
Information Technology News Linux gets organized with merger of major open source groups | Linux gets organized with merger of major open source groups |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 22 January 2007 | |
  
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Another major goal of the Linux Foundation will be to ensure consistency across all the main Linux distributions to prevent forking as was the case with Unix in the 1980s. If Linux is to flourish, most open source advocates agree that developers need a single standard specification for which develop applications. Last but not least, however, the Linux Foundation sees one of its primary objectives as helping the Linux community compete against its closed source nemesis Microsoft. This includes the provision of legal services to defend against possible patent challenges, the spectre of which Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer raised last year.{moscomment} |
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