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23meg
November 25th, 2007, 05:01 AM
Mozilla developer Robert Accettura notes (http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2007/11/24/top-windows-programs-open-source/) in his last blog post that 7 out of 9 titles in a recent roundup of top 9 Windows utilities by download.com editors (http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9820407-12.html?tag=ss_rltd) are open source. Accettura prefers the term "open source", but all the licenses in question are Free software licenses (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html).

That's quite something, isn't it?

-grubby
November 25th, 2007, 05:08 AM
nice. That's good

inversekinetix
November 26th, 2007, 05:37 AM
i wonder what the ratio of free (read pirated) to legitimate (paid for) copies of windows is.

Fbot1
November 26th, 2007, 05:40 AM
That's basically what I would suspect.