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Red Hat's CTO claims future struggles for open source may involve political and political challenges in copyright law or digital rights management or intellectual property issues, rather than winning respect.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
A move by four sellers of Linux to unite behind a single version of the operating system might help those allies--and boost Linux's popularity--but it isn't likely to dent the dominance of the top dog, Red Hat.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, according to project founder Linus Torvalds.
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