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Jim Zemlin And The Linux Foundation Share Not-So-Secret Open-Source Sauce

ZDNet, Wednesday, February 21st, 2024

Collaborative innovation has been the group's driving force for a quarter of a century. Or, to paraphrase Lao Tzu, the journey of a thousand open-source programs starts with a single project.

Today, the Linux Foundation oversees not only Linux but also more than a thousand other open-source programs

It wasn't always that way. The Linux Foundation, founded in 2007, was focused almost entirely on Linux. As Jim Zemlin, then and now the Linux Foundation's executive director, explained in an interview with Barton George, Dell Technologies' Developer Community manager, the Foundation has expanded well beyond what its founders ever dreamed.

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