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Simon Phipps:Software freedom matters, and I intend to prove it

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 10, 2010

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“Welcome to my new ComputerWorldUK blog, where I’ll aim
to bring you regular dispatches from the front lines of the free
and open source software revolution. Starting out with news seems
smart, so I’ll use this post to announce my new job.

“Throughout the five years I spent as the chief open source
officer for Sun Microsystems, I had the great pleasure of
liberating the source code behind many great products. During my
tenure Sun open sourced the Java platform, Solaris Unix, the
UltraSPARC processor and much more.”


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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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