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The Oregonian: Linux Lab Keeps Focus as Turmoil Hits Cyber World

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 3, 2004

[ Thanks to Stu C for this
link. ]

“One of the first things people at Beaverton’s Open Source
Development Lab want to make clear is that while their world is at
a virus-driven boil, the kernel is cool.

“And it’s the kernel, the foundation of the Linux operating
system, that they would prefer to talk about.

“‘One thing I don’t think has been brought out that much is that
we are the Switzerland for Linux development,’ says Nelson Pratt,
the lab’s director of marketing…”

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