The State of Linux in 2012 #LinuxCon | Linux Today

The State of Linux in 2012 #LinuxCon

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Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 29, 2012

SAN DIEGO. Every year for the past four years, Jim Zemlin, the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation gets in front of thousands of Linux developers and users at the LinuxCon conference to detail the success and the State of Linux.

“Open source and Linux have become the fundamental to the way people create new technology,” Zemlin said.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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