InformationWeek: OSCON, Pt. 1.1: Free-Range Open Source

Serdar Yegulalp gives an overview of the first day at OSCON including comments on Zemlin’s keynote.

“Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation kicked off with words of encouragement for mobile open source developers: “You use Linux every day and you might not even know it.” According to his stats, Linux is the fastest-growing mobile platform out there, and is also consolidating strongly in the embedded market thanks to a broad range of software running on Linux (it’s software that drives this market, he asserted, not new hardware devices). The flexibility of the Linux stack and its business advantages were other major assets; the rising value of mobile applications, easier branding opportunities (your own Linux, not someone else’s proprietary OS) and the consolidation of Linux as a platform also figured into the picture.”