From Toby Howard
Referring to the war over Java
(This Week, 14 November, p 17),
Kurt Kleiner writes: “Java promises to allow programmers to write a program
only once, rather than having to write separate versions for Windows, Macintosh,
Unix and other operating systems such as Linux.”
This is misleading, because Linux, properly called GNU/Linux, is a freely
available implementation of Unix. Much to the chagrin of the world’s computer
lawyers, Linux is Unix—and it’s free source code too.
Watch out Microsoft—Linux has arrived!
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