Information Week magazine is declaring the top open-source stories of 2007. Among them: Microsoft and Samba, Dell shipping Ubuntu, and GPL Version 3. Here’s an excerpt from the article penned by Serdar Yegulalp regarding the Ubuntu story.
2007’s Top Open-Source
“This was more than just Dell adding Ubuntu as a pre-load option, but certifying that Ubuntu would work with its machines, too. As tentative as the whole thing was at first, it has since become a possible point of inspiration for other PC retailers. Whether or not Ubuntu will knock Windows out of the box is doubtful, but it at least means that much more choice — and competition.”
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