Hello open source world
Emerging from the shadows they came, predominantly genuinely well-meaning… early open source advocates were hobbyists bent on creating a new world order.
They were in the process of defining not just an operating system but a hierarchical meritocracy built around an ecosystem of licences giving birth to libraries, utilities, frameworks, applications and more importantly the skeleton of Internet and mobile computing.
I’ve been very fortunate to make a living out of open source since 1998. Founder staffer at many of the open source startups that grew out of the Bay Area Linux User Groups and Silicon Valley Linux User Groups, I worked at Linuxcare and VA Linux, founded my own global security project and ecosystem SmoothWall and the company of the same name (still trading today protecting millions of networks globally including major retail brands and governments).
I worked with Red Hat until the end of last year and am now at Falanx in the UK – a firm building possibly the fastest and most intelligent security platform to ever emerge from the open source community.
I’ve earned my chops and seen it all en route.