Tech companies are some of the most bullish players in today’s economy, so why would they give away their trade secrets? Many of them do by sharing their software through an open source license. This means the software code is available for anyone to study, change, and distribute. We sit down with Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos to find out why open source is the business model of the future.
- Extended version of our interview with Greg Papadopoulos, California Connected
- Greg Papadopoulos bio
- “My Views on Open Source”, Greg Matter - Greg Papadopoulos’ Weblog
- The GNU Project, a project to keep Unix operating system open and free
- The Free Software Foundation
- Free Software definition, explains the analogy of — `free’ as in ‘free speech,’ not as in `free beer.’
- Revolution OS, movie about the open source movement.
- Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share.
- “Cutting Costs with Open Source”, Xeni Jardin’s report for NPR
- “Wikipedia, Open Source and the Future of the Web”, NPR’s Talk of the Nation