Why Sun`s CEO Is Fast Becoming a Leading Spokesperson for the Open-Source Community
Walking into the big meeting room at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford University campus March 7 for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research summit, the first thing one noticed were the comfortable-looking, overstuffed dark leather chairs on the podium for speakers and panelists.
Schwartz—the only one I could find in the room with a ponytail, man or woman—stood out in this discussion with his simple but effective parables explaining how open-source software works. Thus, right before everybody's eyes on a world-class stage, he became a bona fide spokesperson for the open-source community.
Mind you, these are brilliant business leaders, but after three people used different terminology to ask the same basic question—"Just how do you make money by giving your products away?"—Schwartz decided to explain it in their terms.
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