Jim Zemlin, formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. He previously served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies. Jim has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences and is an advisor on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.
On January 21, the New York Times published a story on Linux. This wasn't an
article on technical advancement: no new kernel or distribution had been
released. It wasn't financial; there wasn't yet another impressive quarter
from one of the many companies that build their business around Linux.
Thankfully, it wasn't another piece of FUD about open source legal issues and
dubious patent assertions from desperate competitors. Instead the article
simply stated: "The Linux industry has united to compete against proprietary
platforms." The Linux Foundation was born.
Late last year, our members and internal management teams decided the time
was right to merge the two leading Linux consortia: the Free Standards Group
(FSG) and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). Why now?
Since OSDL and the FSG were formed, more than six years ago, Linux has grown
enormously in server,... (more)
Jim Zemlin, formerly executive director of the Free Standards Group, is the executive director of the Linux Foundation. He previously served as vice president of marketing for Covalent Technologies. Jim has also been a keynote speaker at industry and financial conferences and is an advisor on open source strategy to various companies and governmental groups including Hyperic, Zmanda and the Chinese Open Source Promotion Union.
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