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Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @02:08PM from the how-many-gnus-for-a-soda dept.

Dog's_Breakfast writes "In a declining economy, software licenses become a luxury. Linux and the BSDs offer free alternatives. As the USA toys with the possibility of defaulting on its national debt (and thus risking economic collapse), the author wonders if this might not, at last, lead to 'The Year of the Linux Desktop.'"

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Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @02:31PM (#36962812)

Wait, you're saying we can't grow the economy by just selling each other tulip bulbs?

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