Protecting the foundations of Linux – an interview with Jim Zemlin | Linux Today

Protecting the foundations of Linux – an interview with Jim Zemlin

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 27, 2011

[ Thanks to Linux User & Developer magazine for this
link. ]

“Jim Zemlin is the executive director of the Linux
Foundation. In this capacity, he heads up the efforts of the
Foundation by bringing important people and organisations together
to fix problems. This past April, we caught up with him again while
playing his role as Linux User’s guest editor in this our centenary
issue, and checked in on those topics.

“Perhaps the single biggest change since our first interview
with Jim has been the widespread popularity of Linux on handheld
devices, mostly thanks to the Android platform. But that’s not all
that has changed. Linux has continued to grow in popularity around
the world, and recently Zemlin jokingly referred to criticising
Microsoft as similar to “kicking a puppy”.


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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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