In august 1991, a 21-year-old student posted a newsgroup message intro- ducing a "free operating system" that he described as "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu." Barely into its adolescence, Linux has changed the software industry-to the point that we must ask how much longer tradi-tional software vendors can compete against "free" without substantially changing their business models, tactics and tone.
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