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Dot Commies of the World, Revolve!

Kirby Urner
5 min readMay 27, 2022

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When those fluent in financialese discovered the open source revolution, suddenly the venture capitalists decided to capitalize on Linux. The rivalry with Microsoft, back then, led investors to polarize and place bets, like at the races, which inflated the dot com bubble. Then the bubble burst (the dot com bomb) and many, not as fluent in computerese as financialese, concluded Linux was now over. If it’s not a moneymaker, it’s…

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