____/ Ramon F Herrera on Wednesday 20 June 2007 23:56 : \____
> With so much information available on the net, I don't subscribe to
> industry paper media anymore. However, somehow I ended up subscribed
> to the paper edition of Information Week. I was pleasantly surprised
> at their support of OSS and Linux.
>
> Reading one of its articles, by Charles Babcock, I learned about the
> "Linux Foundation",
>
> "...a San Francisco-based group that includes AMD, Bank of America,
> EMC, Intel, HP, IBM, Oracle and Novell"
>
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Members
>
> We can join as a "Platinum Member" for a mere $500,000:
>
> http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Join
>
> or, since we Linux users have a reputation of being tight-fisted
> (Scrooge McPenguin?), there is always the "Individual Member" category
> for only $25.
>
> -Ramon
>
> ps:
>
> http://www.informationweek.com
Suits body suited for the suits. They concentrate on how they can use Linux to
make money. There isn't necessarily something wrong with this because they
sponsor a lot of the development and coordinate growth.
--
~~ Best of wishes
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