NewsForge: OSDL CEO: Linux is Coming and Portland is its Capital | Linux Today

NewsForge: OSDL CEO: Linux is Coming and Portland is its Capital

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 6, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“The world’s single largest official open source organization is
headquartered not in Japan or Silicon Valley but in Beaverton,
Oregon. It makes sense that open source would do well in the
Portland area, which is liberal, socially and environmentally
conscious, and serious about world trade. Yet when Stuart Cohen,
chief executive officer of the Open Source Development Labs,
mentions it to the locals, he often gets a double-take.

“‘It’s OK elsewhere,’ Cohen told attendees of the InnoTech
conference in the Rose City last week, where he gave a keynote
address. ‘Here, everybody’s like, ‘Why are you here…?””


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Web Webster

Web Webster

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