In a commentary posted on NewsForge, Jesse Smith writes: “Though many of us in the world of programming might find it hard to believe, there are a lot more people out there who don’t know what Linux is than who do. Those few who have heard a bit about it are often mistaken about what it really is. In fact, about 90 percent of the people I talk to have either never heard of Linux, or just know that it is an operating system … or something computer related.
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