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OSCON - the Wrap-Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-snippets-from-people-you-want-to-hear-from dept.

lisah writes "NewsForge's Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier has been reporting from OSCON all week and wrote a great wrap up of the event. He even had the foresight to take along a video camera while rubbing elbows with some of what Brockmeier calls the 'leading minds in open source.' Caught on tape: Kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, Python creator Guido van Rossum, Jeff Waugh of Canonical, Greg Lund-Chaix of OSL, and OSCAMP 2006 organizer Brandon Sanders."

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  1. A thousand peers, not luminaries 'at the top.' by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Open Source needs to be about broad teams of user/developers. Not about luminaries and celebrities.

    The heros of OS are an inspiration, but I think they'd rather have a team of peers to work with than a sort of paparazzi experience.

  2. Re:Wings up, flaps down. by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Laugh it up. RMS's deliberate actions and dedication resulted in the free software movement, and are more or less the reason why Microsoft doesn't dominate the web today.

    RMS is the primary reason why Linux ended up being more than just a toy that was popular among college-age Unix geeks. Give the man some credit.

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