Simon Phipps elected as OSI director | Linux Today

Simon Phipps elected as OSI director

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 12, 2010

“The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has elected Simon Phipps to
the board of directors; Phipps recently left Oracle after serving
as Sun’s Chief Open Source Officer. He will take up his new
position on the OSI board from April 1st. In a blog posting
confirming the appointment, Phipps says he is “honoured and
delighted” to take up the position on the board of an organisation
which “still plays a very important and relevant role in the world
of software freedom”.”


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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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