Editorial: Don't Try This at Home
Editorial: Don't Try This at Home
Dear Linux Magazine Reader,
A flurry of posts last month reminded me of the bad old FUD days a few years ago, when Microsoft used to equate open source software with a kind of disease that must be stopped before it infects the world. In this case, the argument centered around the way Google adapted a collection of Linux kernel header files for the Android Bionic library.
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