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Talk to Sun's 'Open Source Diva'

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. Question about Solaris x86 by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 0, Troll

    How does it feel to work for the only company ever pushed out of a market by Open Source Software?

  2. I don't care if this is sexist... by tkrotchko · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...but is there a picture of this woman on the net?

    I find that women with the ability and inclination to be involved in software, development and open source are inherently very sexy.

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    You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you