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Starting an open source company

Event: 
OAK01
Speaker: 
Eric Allman
21 Jan

Save money, improve security with open source - Scott McNealy (Sun Microsystems co-founder)

According to this BBC article, Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems co-founder, claims he has been asked by the Obama administration to prepare a paper advising them on open source software.

Quotes from the article:

  • "It's intuitively obvious open source is more cost effective and productive than proprietary software,"
  • "Open source does not require you to pay a penny to Microsoft or IBM or Oracle or any proprietary vendor any money."
20 Jan

Randy Pausch's last lecture

Following the theme of incredible passion - I posted this on the old web site last year and it recieved a ton of positive feedback. It is very inspirational and heart felt thus I'd like to share it here. If you have not watched this video, I highly recommend you do:

7 Things I wish I learned at Cal about being an open source developer

Event: 
OAK01
Speaker: 
Brian Behlendorf