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Open Source Grows
Just finished giving a talk to an enthusiastic audience at SunNetwork Conference, Shanghai on the Economics of Open Source (alternate title: Yes, You CAN Make Money in Open Source). I gave the same talk last month at Sun Tech Days Hyderabad and I'm noticing a trend. Interest in Open Source is growing (both inside and outside of Sun). In both places the room was packed and the questions were excellent. In India people were literally sitting in the aisles and many were unfortunately turned away for lack of space. People seem to be really interested in understanding and joining Open Source (although, to be fair there are always questioners who ponder WHY Sun or any company would chose to give away so much...) ;-) After last month's talk I received several mails from people in India who wanted to get started already! How cool is THAT?