[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“Following up on last week’s innovation discussion I had a
chance to talk with Andrew Aitken, Founder and Senior VP of the
Olliance Group on the notion of Open Source as a catalyst for
innovation, not just a software development model. I know, heady
stuff, right? But Aitken’s work on advocating open source in the
California government and his lead role for the Open Source Think
Tank qualifies him as one of those smart fellers that one should
really chat with about FLOSS once in a while.“Independent of my twitter-sation last week with The 451 Group’s
Jay Lyman, Aitken was part of a webinar put on last week by his
employer Black Duck Software with Yahoo!’s Director of Open Source,
Gil Yehuda, which covered Open Source as a catalyst for innovation
and cultural change in the workplace. So it made sense for Aitken
to get in touch with me, since my conclusions from Lyman’s comments
were in sync with what his webinar was talking about.”