Now that Linux has achieved World Domination, seems it has nothing but friends. Big ones.
That was my first take-away from O’Reilly‘s 19th OSCON in Portland, Oregon. This one celebrated 20 years of Open Source, a category anchored by Linux, now aged 27. The biggest sponsors with the biggest booths—Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Salesforce, Huawei—are all rare-metal-level members of the Linux Foundation, a collection that also includes pretty much every tech brand you can name, plus plenty you can’t. Hats off to Jim Zemlin and the LF crew for making that happen, and continuing to grow.