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Jim, our executive director, will be delivering a keynote at Gartner’s Open Source Summit. He’ll be speaking on how open standards can prevent vendor lock in, even in the world of open source. This is an excellent show for end users. Let us know if you’ll be attending and what to meet.
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ZDNET Asia recently published this article on Microsoft’s view of open source software.
“One of the beauties of the open-source model is that you get a lot of flexibility and componentization. The big downside is complexity,” Ryan Gavin, Microsoft’s director of platform strategy, said on the sidelines of the company’s worldwide partner conference in Boston last month.
The article doesn’t mention (and it should) that the Linux community has banded together to fight this complexity with efforts like the Free Standards Group. Our charter is to help ISVs target the Linux platform. Keep an eye out for enhanced developer services offered by the FSG.
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Amanda is Vice President of Marketing and Developer Programs at the Linux Foundation. She can be reached at amanda (at) linux-foundation dot org.
