"The way that big software companies used to make software was hiring all the smart people, locking them in a room, and sliding pizza under the door, until they had written whatever needed writing. And then selling tickets to get into the room."
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Keynote Speech at FOSDEM 2007: Liberating Java
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Simon Phipps
Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate. Phipps was instrumental in IBM's involvement in the Java programming language, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme. Under Phipps, most of Sun's core software was released under open source licenses, including Solaris and Java.
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