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Sam Ramji wants more input from the open-source community, hoping to make Microsoft more responsive to their needs.
The director of the open-source development lab at Microsoft has told a Linux Foundation event he’s trying to educate Microsoft and slowly change its ways. The only way he can do that, Ramji said, is [...]

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The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the use of Linux, is set to debate the future of operating systems with Microsoft and Sun Microsystems at the upcoming Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.
Linux Foundation officials have confirmed keynotes and panelists for the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, now in its [...]

It’s not all about the code in the Linux ecosystem. Any Linux project needs leadership. Markus Rex is one such leader.
For most of the last year, Rex was the CTO of the Linux Foundation, on loan from his employer Novell. Now, he’s back with Novell, where he is responsible for Novell’s open source and open [...]

Stuart Cohen declared in the Dec. 1 issue of BusinessWeek: “Open Source, The Model Is Broken.” I disagree. Open source was never a business model per se, any more than it was a programmer’s religion, despite the fervor that sometimes surrounds it. Rather, it was, and is, a better way to develop and distribute software.
Stuart [...]