| IBM Opens the Open-Source Floodgates |
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Last week at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM officials announced a "fundamental expansion" of what the company is doing around open source -- software whose code is "open" to alterations from users.
Big Blue, since investing $1 billion in Linux back in 2001, has been one of the open source community's biggest corporate backers, primarily because it has viewed the operating system as a way to make serious inroads against Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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