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Silicon.com: Agenda Setters 2004: Open Source Takes Off

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 27, 2004

“Open source is no longer just about Linus Torvalds. He’s always
been the highest-ranked–and sometimes only–member of this
community on the poll, which he’s graced every year since its
inception in 2000.

“In 2000 and 2001, Torvalds was joined by Red Hat’s Bob Young.
Last year, two others came along: Erich Gamma for managing the open
source Eclipse software development project and Munich mayor
Christian Ude for threatening to switch the city from Windows to
Linux (which later he did)…”

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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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