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Linux lab mending fences with techies
March 21, 2006 — 8:01pm ET
Programmers aren't always easy to get along with, and Linux programmers... we'll be nice and say they are a particular sort. The Open Source Development Labs seems to agree. OSDL employs Linux founder Linus Torvalds and his right-hand man Andrew Morton, and now they're forming an advisory board to help interface with Linux programmers worldwide. In the past, ideas reached OSDL primarily through mailing lists and emails, so now it will be a more formal process. That kind of organization might just be good for the young OS contender.
For more on the OSDL:
- read this News.com article
ALSO: Why good technologists are hard to find. Article
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