Open-source software running the Internet under the radar

CNN.com -- TECHNOLOGY
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/07/20/open.source.ap/

SAN JOSE, California (AP)
It powers more than 70 percent of all Web servers and routes much of the
world's e-mail traffic. It makes surfing the Internet simple and
provides the muscle behind Google Inc.'s search engine and countless
e-commerce sites.

It's open-source software, ...

Now, the software once branded the byproduct of dreamers, academics and
hobbyists is the foundation of the Internet economy. ...

... Tim O'Reilly, a publisher of high-tech books.

Software, he says, is becoming commoditized just as the personal
computer did in the 1980s.

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