[Gllug] Open source == 'Popular Computing'

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Thu, April 2, 2009 17:07, James Laver wrote:
> I was in Foyles this afternoon and some guy asked at the counter for
> 'Open source books' and he was pointed to the 'Popular computing'
> section. Imagine my surprise at finding it's full of books about
> openoffice and linux and such.
>
> I know this follows on from the previous thread about linux having
> arrived, but seriously, when did it become 'popular computing'?

Since the day the ZX81 came out ?

(Meaning it's always been popular, it just depends on your particular
definition of popular...)


Salsaman.
http://lives.sourceforge.net


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