James Tan
Software Developer
Novell (SUSE Labs)
Nuremberg, Germany
Open Source Software
Open Source Software
and Linux
and Linux
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1. About Myself
2. What is Open Source
Software
3. What is Linux
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2003 Today
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2008
2007
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July 2007 Today
2008
Nuremberg, Germany
Milan, Italy Vienna, Austria Berlin, Germany
Rotterdam, Netherlands Zurich, SwitzerlandPrague, Czech Republic
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Rank Name Age Company Personal Wealth
#3 Bill Gates 52 Microsoft US$58 billion
#14 Lawrence Ellison 63 Oracle US$25 billion
#32 Sergey Brin 34 Google US$18.7 billion
#33 Larry Page 35 Google US$18.6 billion
#40 Michael Dell 43 Dell US$16.4 billion
#41 Paul Allen 55 Microsoft US$16 billion
#43 Steve Ballmer 52 Microsoft US$15 billion
- Mark Zuckerberg 24 Facebook US$1.5 billion
- Steve Chen 30 Youtube US$350 million
- Chad Hurley 31 Youtube US$350 million
Show me the Money!
Source: Forbes Top 50 Billionaires 2007
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Software that has source
code which is freely
available
http://www.opensource.org/
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Close source /
Proprietary Software
vs
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Close source /
Proprietary Software
AND
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A free operating
system based on
open source software
Linux