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Free software hasn't won

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This is a translated version of a talk I gave at P.I.W.O in June, with cleanups and adjustments for the blog form.

# Free Software hasn't won

…that doesn't sound right. I made the slides in Inkscape, on a computer running KDE and Linux, I use Firefox regularly. But maybe that's just me. What about you, are you using Free Software? Hands up! [hands go up in the audience] Of course! What nonsense, "Free Software hasn't won". Someone replaced my slides, hey conference staff!

**Staff:** *The other folder.*

[Browsing to a directory named "other folder", opening file called "your slides dimwit.pdf"]

Now, those are finally my slides.

Hello audience, my name is Dorota, and I'm going to talk about how

# Open Source has won.

And that's not recent, the news has been out in 2008, and has been regularly repeated since by reputable press: ZDNET, Linux Journal, Wired, and so on.

Those press articles list a multitude of examples to prove it.

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