Should companies that produce mostly proprietary software invest in Linux development? In one sense, that seems as illogical as the artisanal-organic bread guy from the local farmers’ market buying shares in Wonder Bread. But in a move that reveals the growing influence of open source beyond its traditional space, Perforce has joined the Linux Foundation and is very committed to supporting and protecting open-source code. Here’s what Don Marti, technical marketing manager, had to say.

Perforce is a leading vendor in the software-versioning business. Its main product, Git Fusion, is a value-added platform based on the open source git project, the version-control system for code that Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, created to assist with kernel development. git is one of the most widely used versioning platforms available today.

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