Mitch Kapor delivers keynote at OSCON: Open Source on the Mainstream Desktop
July 10th, 2003 at 10:32 am (4 years, 10 months ago) by OSAF under OSAF, Public EventsOver the past few years, open source software has become critically important in the server rooms, and on the workstations of enterprises everywhere. In this keynote, OSAF founder and chair Mitch Kapor asks if the same collaborative development methods that created success in the corporate arena can now make open source software central to the consumer desktop.
The full report can be viewed and downloaded from the OSAF website Linux on the Desktop Report (400K pdf file)
NB: The Report’s author Bart Decrem has updated the material from the original report a year later (June 2004). The updated material appears in an article published in Queue Magazine, May 2004, under the title “Desktop Linux, Where Art Thou?”. Copyright 2004, Queue Magazine. A draft of the article (100K pdf file) is posted on the author’s blog.
Mitch’s presentation slides are also available as a rather large pdf file (it’s a 3.8 MB file! We will have a smaller version later for those of you with a smaller pipe)
