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[Francesco Potorti`]

MCNEALY PREDICTS 30% ANNUAL GROWTH IN LINUX USERS
Addressing participants at the Linux World Conference and Expo, Sun 
Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy predicted Tuesday that the number of Linux 
users will grow by 30% a year for the next several years, and urged 
companies to embrace the open-source software movement. Documenting his own 
company's commitment, McNealy noted that Sun has at least 400 full-time 
employees dedicated to Linux and pledged to abide by the ethical standards 
of the Linux community, which is made up of thousands of grassroots 
enthusiasts worldwide who collaborate on software projects. "We're going to 
share in the lifestyle and be a capitalist," said McNealy. "We'll share our 
thoughts but we don't think it's broken so we're not going to try to fix 
it," he said, referring to fears that companies could take the open source 
code and factionalize it by creating competing proprietary versions. (AP 13 
Aug 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020813/D7LCONLO1.html