From Counterculture Flag to Corporate Gold Star

“In 2006, Massachusetts’ then CIO, Peter Quinn, described the
open source community as the ‘sandal and ponytail set,’ and claimed
that image and appearance made open source a harder sell for use in
his state government. While those are some pretty powerful words,
it begs the question: is there such a thing as a ‘Linux
person?’

“According to Anil Uberoi, Chief Marketing Officer at Levanta, a
Linux data center automation solution provider, the stereotypical
Linux mindset can clash with some IT managers. ‘When Linux was new
and immature, the open-source mindset was quite different from that
of proprietary operating systems, resulting in cultural clashes,’
says Uberoi. ‘As Linux has matured, this has lessened for the most
part…'”

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