Bob Young was the founder of Red Hat and former CEO of Red Hat until 1999. Now he owns Lulu a self-publishing company. Being a Raleigh,NC resident (as am I) he is often interviewed a lot by the local news. I thought this interview was a hoot.  [Click the image to view the video, the [...]

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Today LinuxWorld published a piece I sort of wrote. You see I finished it before the holidays originally titled the Who Matters the Most in Open Source Business. The fine folks at LinuxWorld did take a little bit of editorial license with the story and renamed it 2008’s Top Leaders in Open Source Business.
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I was reading J onathan Swartz’s blog and saw this video with MySQL CEO Marten Mickos mentions that MySQL has about 50,000 downloads per day of which 1 in 1000 of them end up paying MySQL money.

…Let’s also say that of that 1800 users 10% of them share their experience with others that’s 657,000 users a year, so let’s cut that in half to be on the safe side, 328,500.

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Today Nokia announced their intention to acquire an open source tools manufacturer, Trolltech.
Trolltech is an open source company by virtue of their dual-licensing of the QT tool kit that is used by a number of products but probably most notably the KDE desktop. Though they do dual license and sell commercial proprietary products as well. [...]

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I travel every week for work. I carry a bag full of gear including a 15.4″ MacBook Pro, camera, cords, iPhone, iPod (for digital recordings),books, and a host of other junk. I have come to the conclusion my best bet is to stick with backpack style case since I am on the go so much.
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