The current LPI organization is blended from two separate mailing lists and a third Linux community certification project, Digital Metrics.
"We'd be fools not to worry about large companies coming into our space, " said Chris DiBona, Linux community evangelist for VA Linux.
I'm always amazed and a little in awe of what the people in the Linux community take it upon themselves to do.
"We are hoping that the open-source community will embrace this and that the Linux community will a build a better Linux, " said IBM spokeswoman Lisa Lanspery.
These businesses may humor the Linux community.
CNN: Linux' success is remarkable, but nothing is guaranteed
At this point, the members of the Linux community have a lot more stake in DVD matters than whether or not they can watch Galaxy Quest (the DVD release date for which is May 2, by the way) while doing a compile.
"IBM believes that leadership with Linux solutions begins with effective collaboration in the community, and IBM's ten year history of working with the Linux community has resulted in a strong, mutually beneficial relationship, " said Daniel Frye, vice president, open systems development, IBM.
In an essay on his personal site that's been circulating the interwebs, Marc Deslauriers outlines the pangs he and the Linux community have felt over the years trying to use iPods on the open source platform, surmising that Apple is intentionally and repeatedly seeking ways to block non-iTunes programs from syncing in any way with its devices.
If any private company designed such a product for Linux, that company would not be in a position to cram that program down the throat of the Linux user community.
You are right that those merits probably exist only because Linux is a unique community.
CNN: Linux' success is remarkable, but nothing is guaranteed
Will a community like Linux develop or will there be massive forking?
Linux distributors have no interest in forcing Linux standards on the IT community by tying applications to the operating systems without regard for the safety of their customers.
But they see Linux as an opportunity, not a community -- much less a charitable cause.
CNN: Linux' success is remarkable, but nothing is guaranteed
Evan was not satisfied with simply writing about Linux and became an active member of the community.
Partnership activity remains strong and includes a recent collaboration with IBM to support that company's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition as part of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
As the market for Linux server systems grows in the service provider community and in universities and laboratories, so does the revenue that can potentially be derived from the servicing and support of those systems.
Hadoop is neither a community-based open source project like Linux or Drupal nor a commercial open core company like Alfresco, or JBoss.
But as LPI members looked more closely at the feedback received from the community about the types of things that a junior, intermediate, and advanced Linux admin should know, they discovered that the places where the distributions were different -- primarily their installation and selection of GUI -- weren't areas that needed to be tested that deeply.
There are many talented developers, for example, who are happy to invest countless hours with no cash compensation to develop open source software such as the Firefox browser or the Linux operating system because it gives them satisfaction and a chance to show off their coding chops to the broader community of developers.
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