A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit

Jacob's ladder writes "Ten years ago this week, the Free Software Summit arguably marked the beginning of today's OSS movement. Ars Technica interviews many of those in attendance when the revolution began. John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl scripting language and Tk toolkit and founder of Electric Cloud was there, and notes how much the landscape has changed. 'When I made my first open-source release in the early 1980s (VLSI chip design tools from Berkeley), there were probably less than five open-source projects in the world. By the time of the first O'Reilly conference, there were dozens; now there are probably thousands. Also, open-source software has received substantial mainstream acceptance. 10 years ago, people were suspicious or afraid of it; now it is widely embraced.'"

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State of Open Source roundtable

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Another recent interview-based take on the State of Open Source/a., with discussion from Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Google's Chris DiBona, IBM's Bob Sutor, Microsoft's Sam Ramji, and a host of other business-minded open source folks from Alfresco, EnterpriseDB, Mulesource , Hyperic, Asterisk, and MySQL.