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Closed society, open source. (Correspondence).(Letter to the Editor)
American Prospect, The, October, 2002 by Atkeson, John
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> I ENJOYED "CLOSED SOCIETY, Open Source" [Sept. 9] on Linux's growing popularity in China. It's news that a radical free-information movement could make such strange bedfellows with the Far East's secretive society. But it did history a disservice in its description of Linus Torvalds' vision: "His idea, long nurtured by pockets of programmers around the world, was to promote software design based on wild, democratic and ...
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