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SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft has spent a lot of time attacking Linux recently, but the company has learned and benefited from the rival operating system. Linux's success in low-end servers led the company ...

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Windows may boast the lion’s share of the desktop education market, but the economic and technical benefits of open source software has seen many schools and education institutions implement various ...

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eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Ubuntu Linux is one of the most popular Linux ...

Microsoft learns from the strengths of the operating system that it loves to hate, Red Hat wants to take the OS to schools, and Turbolinux looks beyond its namesake. Linus Torvalds, meanwhile, says ...

Larry Augustin has learned something from his relatively brief roller-coaster career in the open-source software industry. In fact, the former Stanford researcher has applied those lessons in an ...

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