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Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva'

Posted by Roblimo on from the pushing-nudging-cajoling dept.

Danese Cooper is Manager of Sun's Open Source Program Office. A Google search on Danese turns up more than 1000 results. She's a frequent speaker at IT industry events and conferences, and is, without question, Sun's staunchest internal Open Source advocate. Sun is moving toward Open Source in fits and starts, and Danese is behind a lot of that motion. Feel free to ask her anything you want (one question per post. please) about the trials and tribulations of being an Open Source person within a company that hasn't yet fully grasped the concept, and how she goes about trying to change that. We'll post her answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions within the next week or so. The only question she can't answer is whether/when Java might be Open Sourced. I already asked her, and she replied, "Sadly, I have no news on that..."

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  1. Re:How does it feel... by yatest5 · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    to be a woman in such a male dominated field? How do you keep ahead of the game?

    Jesus christ you sexist twat - do you think that maybe she keeps ahead of the game in exactly the same way as other *male* human beings? Maybe?

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    • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
  2. Open Source Business Plan by yatest5 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Open source software
    2. //Too drunk, implement later
    3. PROFIT!!!!!

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    • Mod parent up! [a] by Anonymous Coward (Score:5) Thurs, June 31, @13:37
  3. Money From $your_activity by Erris · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    vauge@trollbot: cat troll_post
    A large number of $fims have ceased to exist in the last while because they couldn't make money from $product.

    In light of this do you believe that it is possible to make money from $product alone or does a company need a hardware arm like Sun?

    Kewl post dude! Try:

    firm = restaurant, law firm, consulting firm, doctor's office, courrier service or nasty nails.

    product = food, legal advice, advice, health care, delivery service or toe funk cleaning.

    Do you think we can make money off it, or do we need to sell some kind of hardware too?

    pththth-th-th-fit!

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  4. Diva? by jsin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Aren't Diva's supposed to be hot?

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