As Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst told the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday:
"I never thought I would say this but actually, being very unpopular in the world, as frankly the US is these days, is a huge benefit to open source," because people are resentful of sending billions of dollars back to the US in IP taxes, Whitehurst said. They also do not want to pay it to Western Europe, he said.
InfoWorld has the story, a round table on the state of open source, and a slide show of mug shots.
