CNET News: Open Source "Inside" a VC Bonanza | Linux Today

CNET News: Open Source “Inside” a VC Bonanza

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 4, 2005

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Open source isn’t just about companies like Red Hat and MySQL.
Michael Moritz, a partner with the venture capital firm Sequoia
Capital, says open source code is also buried deep inside of a
growing number of devices.

“‘The thing that people don’t recognize is that we have lots of
investments in open source companies. Look through our portfolio,
and look inside of appliances, and a ton of open source software is
being put inside of those devices and computers of one type or
another,’ he said…”

Complete
Story

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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