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Will the current economy be good for Linux?

PROGNOSTICATION

Author(s): JOE CASAD

Our new, smaller economy is bound to hold surprises for all of us. One of the best parts about a surprise is speculating on what that surprise will be. Because we know we don’t know anything, we can all just guess, and then we can all debate about whose guesses are the most insightful. An optimistic thread running
through the open source community is that the downturn of the world economy might actually be good for Linux.


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