NewsForge.com: Interview: Axmark and Behlendorf on OSS for India | Linux Today

NewsForge.com: Interview: Axmark and Behlendorf on OSS for India

Written By
MS
Mayank Sharma
Jun 17, 2005

“The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has a strong base here in
India, and Richard Stallman has met the leaders of the country on
more than one occasion. But with proprietary software businesses
being so dominant and influential, all an average IT professional
sees is a tug-of-war.

“We spoke with two open source business leaders — David Axmark,
co-founder of MySQL AB, and Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO of
CollabNet — to understand the benefits of an open source IT
economy for a country such as India…”


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Mayank Sharma

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