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Tectonic: Waugh, Friedman and Hall to grace LinuxWorld Johannesburg

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 10, 2006

“South Africa’s LinuxWorld, taking place in Johannesburg later
this month, sports a host of famed open source movers and shakers
as keynote speakers. Topping the bill are Ubuntu’s Jeff Waugh,
Novell’s Nat Friedman, and Linux International’s Jon ‘Maddog’ Hall.
IBM’s lesser-known Canadian Chris Pratt completes the bill.

“While Hall and Waugh are geek household names, Friedman is the
secret star attraction, having worked side-by-side with Mexican
open source guru Miguel de Icaza–the creator of Gnome, Mono and
Evolution…”

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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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