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Open Source Leaders Accept New Challenges
The several hundred attendees heard from Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds; Linux 2.6 kernel maintainer Andrew Morton; Brian Behlendorf, chief technology officer at CollabNet and one of the founders of the Apache Foundation; and Mitch Kapor of the Open Source Applications Foundation.
A slate of Linux and open-source software luminaries took to the stage at the OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) Enterprise Summit, as they discussed how their interests and concerns have expanded along with the capabilities of open source.
The keynote address, titled "An open conversation with Linux and open-source software notables," was more of a question-and-answer session to find out what the panelists are working on and what their views are about issues facing the industry.
"I try to manage the kernel from a technical point of view and, sadly, I don't do much technical coding work anymore. I have become a manager," Torvalds said when asked by the moderator, OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen, what his job involves.
Torvalds said what he does is "read e-mail" and that he does not talk to customers much as that is not what he enjoys doing.
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Source: Eweek Magazine
