Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Mik Kersten.

In this interview we talk with Mik. In specific, we talk about:

• Building a commercial offering on an open source foundation
• Extending and evolving programmer tools for non-programmers
• Defining a task-oriented information-management paradigm
• Bridging academic, open source, and commercial models
• The roles of open and proprietary information in spurring innovation
• The economics and ethos of open source and proprietary methodologies

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Jim Grisanzio.

In this interview we talk with Jim. In specific, we talk about:

• The process of opening a huge codebase to the public
• The unique place of OpenSolaris in the open source community
• Lessons learned from earlier open source projects at Sun and elsewhere
• Trading lessons learned back and forth with the Linux community
• Regional differences in the role of open source technology in Asia
• The reasoning behind Sun’s products and technologies that compete with each other

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Interviewers: Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell

Interviewee: Alexandre Julliard.

In this interview we talk with Alexandre. In specific, we talk about:

• Developing an open source project in cadence with Windows
• Philosophies about how Linux should reach out to Windows users
• The leadership model used in the Wine project and deciding what goes in
• Deciding what applications to support and what to leave out
• The difficulties of working with the closed Windows API and Wine’s relationship with Microsoft

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