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OSCon 2008 Video: How Free Software Can Drive Innovation

Posted August 9th, 2008 by sheeri

The VAR guy has a good summary of Mark Shuttleworth's keynote. The summary starts out with:

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, delivered the keynote address at OSCON this evening. Here’s a recap of his presentation, which explored how free software can drive innovation — and how the Linux desktop has to become a piece of art that leapfrogs Apple within two years.

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And that's as good and concise an explanation that I could have come up with.

Stream directly online at http://technocation.org/node/593/play or download the 298 Mb .wmv file at http://technocation.org/node/593/download.

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