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[News] Mental Gap Between Senior Managers and Open Source Software

  • Subject: [News] Mental Gap Between Senior Managers and Open Source Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:48:27 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| 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.  
| 
| 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?"  
| 
| 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.     
| 
| 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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