Why Sun`s CEO Is Fast Becoming a Leading Spokesperson for the Open-Source
Community
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| CEO Jonathan Schwartz shows patience and eloquence in explaining how a
| company can make lots of money by giving away IP.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Why-Suns-CEO-Is-Fast-Becoming-a-Leading-Spokesperson-for-the-Open-Source-Community/
"Giving away IP"? He probably just means "sharing knowledge", which is a
natural thing to do.
Executive Director Search Update
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| The Mozilla Foundation is looking for an Executive Director. We’ve been doing
| this for a while now. We suspected that the number of people who can
| understand and lead something of Mozilla’s complexity and history would be
| small and hard to find, and we were right.
|
| [...]
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| One important thing we’ve learned so far: It’s hard to find someone who
| understands both open source software and the consumer space. This is an area
| where Mozilla is truly a pioneer and this has been clear in the search
| process.
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http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/03/11/executive-director-search-update/
Related:
On the record with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO: 'I must have a mission'
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| Asay: Tell me a little bit about yourself. What are the last three bands you
| listened to on your iPod?
| Whitehurst: I don't have an iPod (or a Zune). It won't play Ogg Vorbis files.
| Asay: You're serious?!
| Whitehurst: Absolutely.
| Asay: Are you a geek or something?
| Whitehurst: I have been a geek from day one.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9839996-16.html
Of the people, by the people, for the people...
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| Yesterday afternoon, Red Hat, Inc. announced that James Whitehurst would be
| taking over for Matthew Szulik as chief executive. This is important open
| source news because Red Hat is by far the largest company practicing open
| source as its primary business. (Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat executive.)
|
| Already the press has characterized Jim as "an airline guy", and I'd like to
| make a point that these other reporters refuse to acknowledge: Jim was an
| open source guy before he was an airline guy.
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| I met Jim this morning (he doesn't start until January 2008), and I asked him
| point blank: "were you really running Fedora Core 6 when you were first
| contacted about the CEO position?"
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| Jim shot back with a list of all the different releases he's running at home,
| and started giving me an inventory of all the versions of Red Hat Linux he
| ran before the Fedora project came into existence.
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http://opensource.org/node/238
New Red Hat CEO checks open source claims
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| The news that the operations chief from a major US airline, Jim Whitehurst
| from Delta, is taking over at Red Hat from Matthew Szulik is a further sign
| of the growing legitimization of open source and Linux in the eyes of
| corporate, mainstream America. It underscores how the “suits to sandals”
| ratio in the open source and Linux movement sliding further towards the
| suits.
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| Whitehurst’s blue-chip background at the $16-billion-a-year Delta and the
| fact he’s an executive lured from outside of the IT industry rather than one
| who simply swapped one tech industry management job for another underscores
| the belief in open source as a business.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/21/red_hat_new_ceo/
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