“Attendees of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that begins
today in San Jose may someday remember the event as the point at
which a movement became an industry.”
“Previous Linux conferences were seen as gathering places for
members of the open source movement, who believe the best software
applications come from developers sharing their work freely. A
friendly looking penguin was their mascot and writing great code
was their goal…”
“If the people in suits outnumber the people in penguin
T-shirts, that would mean things have changed,” says Dan Kusnetzky,
an analyst at International Data Corp. (IDC) and long-time Linux
watcher. “I’m not sure you can call it an industry yet, but it’s
close.”
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