Open source continues its ascent
Once it was the avant garde of the IT industry, an anti-establishment rebellion that sought to wrest control of software design from the clutches of vendors and restore it to ‘the people’. Such has been the success of the open source movement, however, that today it is just another facet of the IT establishment.
It is hard to imagine a more concrete confirmation of this fact than the endorsement of open source software made in early 2009 by both the UK government and the Conservative Party. Before his departure from the post following the MPs’ expenses scandal, the government’s... read more...
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