Williamette Week: The Rebel Alliance | Linux Today

Williamette Week: The Rebel Alliance

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 30, 2004

[ Thanks to Warren
Gamley
for this link. ]

“Tux the Penguin is a fat little thing. He’s google-eyed and
sports a grin that suggests a recent lobotomy.

“Weird symbol for a revolution. Yet Tux is the mascot of a
movement that’s rocking the computer world.

“One of the strongholds of that rebellion is in a ho-hum
Beaverton office park, home of the Open Source Development Lab. The
Lab is the self-proclaimed ‘center of gravity’ for the global
phenomenon Tux symbolizes. The mission is evangelical. The cause is
Linux…”

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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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