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...last night. Some 36 hours had elapsed since Netscape Communications Corp. did the unimaginable -- release, for free, its coveted source code -- and throughout the Valley, geeks were celebrating as if crateloads of tea had been dumped into Boston Harbor. Sam Ockman, who was running last night's Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, introduced Marc Andreessen to the developers who thronged in to hear him. "I welcome you to our struggle for world domination, and I crown you General Andreessen," he said. "We will win the war -- because nobody expects open-source software...
...Gates gains his fourth TIME cover. But consider this: there are enough copies of Linux (a computer operating system developed by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds) to make its author a billionaire like Gates, and yet Torvalds chooses to continue giving it away free. Who is the greater man? GREGORY BAKER Marsfield, Australia...