Closed Source vs. Open Source in Desktop Linux

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 07/12/2008 - 11:30

The Linux desktop quite commonly relies on closed source code to keep itself running. And if the code works, let it be.


 

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