ComputerWorld Australia: Open Source's Windfall

[ Thanks to Matt for this link. ]

"Matthew Szulik stills remembers when, fresh out of college in 1978, he attended a meeting of the newly formed Massachusetts High Technology Council and watched Digital Equipment founder Ken Olsen bring out one of the company's PDP minicomputers and put it on a folding table.

"'There was so much innovation occurring in the greater Boston area, and I was a 21-year-old kid, wide-eyed and impressionable... [The experience] continues to have an impression on me,' says Szulik, CEO of market-leading Linux distributor Red Hat..."

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