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Transparency – the first step towards open source participation for proprietary vendors
Matthew Aslett, March 24, 2009 @ 7:23 pm ETRed Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst had the following three statements on his final slide at OSBC today:
Transparency builds trust
Participation solves problems
Open source provides an answer
Transparency has become one of the main buzzwords this year and I believe is critically important for traditional proprietary vendors as they attempt to participate with open source in order to reduce costs and benefit from collaborative development projects.
Turn Jim’s statement on its head and it also provides some good advice for those vendors:
Open source provides an answer
Participation solves problems
Transparency builds trust
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[...] Transparency – the first step towards open source participation for proprietary vendors Turn Jim’s statement on its head and it also provides some good advice for those vendors: [...]