Why Open Source is Important to You
Bernard Golden - April 13, 2005

Introduction

There's been an incredible amount of news and gossip about open source over the past year. Between the SCO lawsuits, the Microsoft Windows versus Linux TCO campaign, and the IBM "Linux Everywhere" advertising blitz, open source seems to have gotten more coverage than the Brad and Jennifer split. You might be forgiven for thinking the whole open source thing is overblown--plenty of smoke but no fire...