Open Source Software & Linux

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1. James Tan Software Developer Novell (SUSE Labs) Nuremberg, Germany Open Source Software Open Source Software and Linux and Linux
2. 1. About Myself 2. What is Open Source Software 3. What is Linux
3. 2003 Today 1 2008 2007
4. July 2007 Today 2008 Nuremberg, Germany Milan, Italy Vienna, Austria Berlin, Germany Rotterdam, Netherlands Zurich, SwitzerlandPrague, Czech Republic
5. Rank Name Age Company Personal Wealth #3 Bill Gates 52 Microsoft US$58 billion #14 Lawrence Ellison 63 Oracle US$25 billion #32 Sergey Brin 34 Google US$18.7 billion #33 Larry Page 35 Google US$18.6 billion #40 Michael Dell 43 Dell US$16.4 billion #41 Paul Allen 55 Microsoft US$16 billion #43 Steve Ballmer 52 Microsoft US$15 billion - Mark Zuckerberg 24 Facebook US$1.5 billion - Steve Chen 30 Youtube US$350 million - Chad Hurley 31 Youtube US$350 million Show me the Money! Source: Forbes Top 50 Billionaires 2007
9. Software that has source code which is freely available http://www.opensource.org/
10. Close source / Proprietary Software vs
11. Close source / Proprietary Software AND
13. A free operating system based on open source software Linux
16. James Tan jatan@novell.com