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Wired:Open Season

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 14, 1999

“Why an industry of cutthroat competition is suddenly deciding
good karma is great business.”

“The standing-room-only crowd at the Stanford University Faculty
Club is getting antsy. For the second or third time, the moderator
has skipped over Linus Torvalds, preferring to address his
questions about open-source business models to other members of the
panel. The audience is interested in what the other participants
have to say – they are, after all, the up-and-coming stars of open
source – but not at the expense of a chance to hear Linus, the man
himself, creator of the kernel of the Linux operating system,
declaim on the future.”

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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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