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Linux Foundation CTO Markus Rex: Linux ‘Now an Accepted Choice’

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 2, 2007

LinuxInsider: What’s it like being able, in your
career, to take a break from Novell’s working environment and shake
it up a bit by taking on the CTO role at the Linux
Foundation?

Markus Rex: For me, this is really great. I’ve
been interested in Linux standardization for like, forever. I
started following this whole thing in the mid-’90s. In a previous
life, I used to be a sysadmin (system administrator) and we had a
bunch of Unix machines and I always hated it–everything was
totally different. I think this is a fantastic position to be in,
to be able to do something about that. I certainly had the
opportunity at Suse and Novell to do things from that end, but
there’s a difference…”

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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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