http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/09/biztech/articles/28linux.html
Six months later, a John Markoff article on Apple
Computer was proclaiming the company's adoption of the
"open source" Apache server in the article headline.See John Markoff, "Apple
Adopts `Open Source' for its
Server Computers," New York Times (March 17, 1999).
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/17apple.html
Such momentum would coincide with the growing momentum
of companies that actively embraced the "open source"
term. By August of 1999, Red Hat, a company that now
eagerly billed itself as "open source," was selling
shares on Nasdaq. In December, VA Linux-formerly VA
Research-was floating its own IPO to historical effect.
Opening at $30 per share, the company's stock price
exploded past the $300 mark in initial trading only to
settle back down to the $239 level. Shareholders lucky
enough to get in at the bottom and stay until the end
experienced a 698% increase in paper wealth, a Nasdaq record.
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