The Future is Community

Everyone will get more than he/she contributes. Keith Bright, dDirector of IBM’s Linux Research Center and one of today’s leading evangelists for open-source software, gave IBM a mandate eight years ago when asked to head this initiative: Community must come before IBM’s business needs. If doing what was right for the community seemed counter to IBM’s interests or even likely to help a competitor, IBM would still put the community first. In a visionary move, IBM agreed to this condition, which, according to Bright, has always eventually benefited the company.