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Linux World Expo Turns Businesslike


Publication:	Linux Planet	Date:	Feb 01 2002

I very much fear that those great big companies forget the source of that code from which they hope to make money. It is true that the big guys are familiar with the management of big projects, and Linux is experiencing some pains with projects having grown to the point where they're hard to manage, but the innovation is not happening at the big companies, it's happening in some room where a lone programmer with an idea is beginning the kind of thing that will be a Checkinstall or Gimp-Print. And yeah, it's probably a young man who is listening to music that many of us would liken to the sound of a dental drill. He might well dress strangely and hold genuinely odd views of the world. When I got home from LWE a few minutes ago and checked the Web, I found a report that this year's LWE is all business, and people who are interested in fun and swag ought to stay home. Well, dammit, those are the people who made it possible for this conference to exist at all!