OSCON 2006, O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, was held in Portland, Oregon (US) at the end of July. The team of Port 25, the website of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab, was there too. And they got to interview two famous open source software advocates and conference organizers:
Bill Hilf interviews Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is the CEO of O'Reilly Media and amongst several other things, he is known as an Open Source Software advocate. From the website:"In this interview Bill and Tim discuss the redefinition of 'Open Source', Web 2.0, and some other topics that arose in the first two days of the conference."
Bill Hilf interviews Matt Asay
Matt Asay is VP of Business Development at Alfresco, co-founder of OSCON, and thus also an Open Source Software advocate. From the website: "In this interview Matt and Bill discuss Open Source business models, monetization opportunties for open business apps, and thoughts on the first days of OSCON."
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