Interview With Stormy Peters - GNOME Foundation
In this interview we talk with Stormy. In specific, we talk about:
* History and scope of the GNOME umbrella project
* The relationship between GNOME and the public
* Branding an open source project in a world of mixed solutions
* Competition and collaboration between open source projects and other software
* Enhancing communication between developers and non-technical users
* Individual versus collective contribution to product development
* Client-side Linux and the rise of mobile devices
* Emerging relationships between device manufacturers, carriers, and users
Sean Campbell: Stormy, to get us started, can you give a little bit of your background?
Stormy Peters: Sure. I got into open source software when I was managing the desktop team at HP and I had a team of engineers in India working on the CDE desktop. All we had time to do was fix the defects that our customers were calling in.
This was about 1999, and Linux was becoming really popular. I realized that the Linux desktop did everything our customers needed, as well as other features like OpenOffice, and I thought, “Well, why don’t we just use that one?”
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