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From sara@rock.west.ora.com Wed Aug 26 15:19:03 1998
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:19:01 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Sara Winge <sara@oreilly.com>
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Message-Id: <199808262219.PAA23643@rock.west.ora.com>
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To: gazette@ssc.com
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Subject: O'Reilly's Open Source Developer Day Advances these
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Status: RO
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 1998
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CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com
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http://www.oreilly.com
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O'REILLY'S OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPER DAY PROMOTES ACCEPTANCE OF
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OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
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Corporate Adopters Share Open Source Success Stories
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SEBASTOPOL, CA--The mainstreaming of open source software accelerated
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on Friday, August 21, when over 300 people attended O'Reilly &
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Associates' Open Source Developer Day and Town Meeting in San Jose, CA.
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Attendees heard Yahoo co-founder David Filo say that his company
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couldn't have built the world's largest web site without FreeBSD,
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Apache, and Perl--all open source software. IBM's James Barry told the
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audience how IBM came to realize that Apache was the best choice for
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the web server at the heart of the WebSphere Application Server. And
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Jim Hamerly of Netscape explained how his company developed licenses
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for its Communicator product that both promote open source development
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and protect corporate interests.
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Open Source Developer Day had a practical focus. Eric Raymond, author
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of the influential paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," kicked off the
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program with a keynote that chronicled the rapid growth of the open
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source movement in the past year. His talk was followed by panel
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presentations on managing distributed open source projects, open source
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business models, and licensing and legal issues. Panelists were open
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source pioneers and innovators, including Richard Stallman, founder of
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the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation; Larry Wall, creator
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of Perl; Brian Behlendorf, a founder of the Apache group and Vice
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President of Web Applications, C2Net Software; John Ousterhout, CEO,
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Scriptics Corp. and creator of the Tcl scripting language; Michael
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Tiemann, Co-founder, Cygnus Solutions; Bob Young, President, Red Hat
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Software; and Pamela Samuelson, Professor at the University of
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California at Berkeley and Co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law
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and Technology.
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At the end of the day, another 100 people joined the crowd for the Open
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Source Town Meeting, which was moderated by Tim O'Reilly, President and
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CEO of O'Reilly & Associates. Attendees' questions flushed out the
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philosophical differences between panelists and provoked a spirited
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discussion on the pros and cons of commercializing open source
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software. Scriptics Corp. CEO John Ousterhout elicited strong support
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when he made a case for the value of bringing business knowledge-and
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funding-to open source development efforts. At the other end of the
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spectrum, Richard Stallman, founding father of the free software
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movement, reiterated his long-held belief that all users should have
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the freedom to copy and change any software they use.
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Twenty-eight businesses and organizations that have a stake in the
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continued development of open source software signed on as Partners in
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Open Source Developer Day. Representatives staffed tables at the event,
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providing information and demonstrations to attendees. Partners were:
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AbiSource
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Apache Group
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C2Net
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Corel Computer
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Cyclades Corporation
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Cygnus Solutions
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FreeBSD
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Free Software Foundation
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Linux International
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Linux Journal
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NetBSD Project
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Netscape
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Penguin Computing
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Perl Journal
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Red Hat Software
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The Samba Team
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Scriptics Corporation (Tcl)
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Sendmail, Inc.
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SGI
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Silicon Valley Linux User Group/LINC
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Songline Studios
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Summit Software
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SuSE
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USENIX
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VA Research
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Walnut Creek CD-ROM
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Whistle Communications
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Xemacs Project
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