Novell Hack Week: An Experiment in Innovation | Linux Today

Novell Hack Week: An Experiment in Innovation

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 21, 2007

“According to legendary scientist Albert Einstein, ‘everything
that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who
can labor in freedom.’ Perhaps that is why open-source software is
such fertile ground for innovation. Surrounded by a culture of
freedom in an ecosystem where liberty and empowerment are the end
as well as the means, open-source software developers are radically
transforming the way that many businesses and individuals use and
create software. Last month, Novell decided to push the limits of
developer empowerment and perform an elaborate experiment in
innovation by liberating the company’s entire Linux engineering
team for one full week of free hacking…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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