Perhaps I missed any discussion of this article because I was off the list for a few days while travelling but today's (Mon, Feb 2) New York Times "Digital Commerce" column by Denise Caruso discusses Netscape's decision to make the source code for version 5.0 of their browser freely available. I'm looking at the printed version and I haven't searched out a URL for the electronic version. Perhaps someone can give the URL for this article.
Anyway the article has interesting things to say about Netscape's decision and how it relates to other freely available software like Linux. One quote that caught my eye was "Linux source code is freely available over the Internet. As a result, it is gaining in popularity; it is already a strong competitor in the Unix market and is emerging as a viable competitor to Microsoft's Windows NT, which now commands more than 35 percent of the sub-$25,000 network server market, according to Kimball Brown, a senior analyst for the market research firm Dataquest" Denise Caruso Digital Commerce New York Times 02/02/98 If anyone would have told me when I started using Linux that it would be classed as "a strong competitor in the Unix market" and "a viable competitor to Microsoft's Windows NT" in the business section of the N.Y. Times by early 1998, I would have said they were a little out of touch with reality. I'm happy that I would have been wrong. She mentions RedHat by name and quotes Marc Ewing, a co-founder of the company. She does not mention Debian by name. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .