Open Source Grows Up
Wired Online
Look out, Redmond -- the open source movement isn't running short on talent or momentum; it's merely going commercial.
At an annual advanced-computing summit this week in Monterey, California, academics, hackers, geeks, and network administrators shared their growing ardor for collaborative coding, Apple, and basically anything not Microsoft.
Attendees of the Usenix conference in the heart of John Steinbeck country said there is no dearth of programmers who support open source coding, only geographic constraints.
Brian Behlendorf, who was a lead developer of the Apache Web server, said that while Silicon Valley may be running thin on code jockeys, there is ample talent elsewhere.
"The amount of code coming out of Japan and Italy is incredible. It's a hotbed of open source development, [and] I've no idea why."
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