December 19, 2003
2 Companies Offer Colleges Discounts on Open-Source Software
Two companies that sell software and services compatible with the popular open-source operating system Linux are vying to attract students, colleges, and other educational institutions. The dueling companies are Red Hat, of Raleigh, N.C., and SUSE Linux, of Nuremberg, Germany.
Open-source systems use software whose code is available for users to look at and modify freely. The value of the software grows as contributors fix bugs and add new features. Open-source systems have become
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