Linux Foundation CTO Markus Rex: Linux 'Now an Accepted Choice'

"LinuxInsider: What's it like being able, in your career, to take a break from Novell's working environment and shake it up a bit by taking on the CTO role at the Linux Foundation?

"Markus Rex: For me, this is really great. I've been interested in Linux standardization for like, forever. I started following this whole thing in the mid-'90s. In a previous life, I used to be a sysadmin (system administrator) and we had a bunch of Unix machines and I always hated it--everything was totally different. I think this is a fantastic position to be in, to be able to do something about that. I certainly had the opportunity at Suse and Novell to do things from that end, but there's a difference..."

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