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Bob Young, founder of Red Hat &Lulu, on collaboration, innovation

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 28, 2011

“Bob Young knows about open source and innovation. He’s
co-founder and former CEO of Red Hat. Founder and CEO of Lulu.
Co-founder of the Center for the Public Domain. Much of his life’s
endeavors have been built on innovation through collaboration.

Earlier this year I saw that he was giving a talk titled,
appropriately enough, “Collaborative Innovation” on the lessons
he’s learned from open source and community building. I asked if
he’d bring those lessons to the opensource.com audience as well,
and rather than edit down the stories he shared with me, I’d like
to give them all to you in his words.


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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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