AUSTIN, Texas—How do you herd cats? Well, as the famous EDS commercial shows, it isn't easy. In
a sense, that's what the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit pro-Linux
organization, will be doing this week at the invitation-only LF Collaboration
Summit at the University of Texas Super Computing Center here.
Linux, as
anyone who follows it knows, is the result of the efforts of hundreds of
developers, and it serves the needs of at least as many companies and--thanks
to its role in leading Web sites such as Google and its popularity with
Web-hosting companies—hundreds of millions of users.
So, while
no one "runs" Linux in the same way that Microsoft runs Windows, the Linux
Foundation, and its related projects such as the Linux Standard Base, does the
best it can to herd the Linux cats.
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