OSCON, Pt. 2.1: A Few Words With Mark Shuttleworth

Jul 23, 2008, 16:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Serdar Yegulalp)

"We're not the source of the majority of the innovation, and that's something very important to remember. I'm in Free Software because I think it's a richer source of innovation than the proprietary development model. Reduce free software down to, say three institutions [this was from my own example -- Ubuntu, Red Hat and SuSE], and that reduces the total innovation possible."

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