A Decade of Linux & Increasingly Stronger
The GNU Manifesto, the internet, and the Open Source movement represent a landmark, joining the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. Linux, produced by patient hard work, has made remarkable progress during the past decade, and is well positioned for substantial growth.
In 1998, I was working for a simulator company, Digitran. Two engineers were given the task to find Windows 95 tools to produce graphs of the progress of a simulation on screen and on printer. They tried for 2 weeks and only came up with expensive solutions. I then made a proof-of-concept demo to the boss using only open source software: lout and ghostscript, which I had on my dual-boot little Gateway PC and he was awed that I could do it free of software licenses or a special printer. It took me a few weeks to port my solution to the SCO Unix platform, into the context of the simulator, written in C language. My solution consisted of a few C functions inserted into the simulator library that were called from the simulator, created intermediate files to be shown or printed by the open-source applications. It was a fascinating experience that made me feel powerful! My confidence on the ability of open-source to satisfy any need grew from there, and never left me.
The first corporation to adopt Linux was most likely the Burlington Coat Factory. And the first city in the U.S. that adopted Linux was Largo, in Florida. More recently, a German metropolis decided to take the step forward to Linux.
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