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CIO Magazine- The Myths of Open Source (March 2004)

Transmeta

Okay, this was too easy. Heck, *Linus* worked there (and ranked as a "Fellow" on the engineering advancement scale!) so it was a given that they'd have Linux on the desktop. They use it for everything except passing documentation to customers. (Doh!)

The joke of this story is that Dave Taylor (ddt@ddt.com, the guy who ported Doom to Linux) said that it was specifically because the people negotiating with him had used MS-Word documents left over from a previous offer that he was able to sell his work for such a good price. His Linux-based MS-Word converter showed him the "hidden" revisions, including the amount offered to another game developer for a similar work. They had simply used the same "offer.doc" file, without realizing that the change-history was being recorded en-toto.

Lots of folks at Transmeta heard Dave tell this story but no one seemed able to change the behavior of the Marketing department. Oh well...

-- Rick Miller - 02 Oct 2002

Enforcer

Work for a company where the executives are Linux advocates. (I happen to be one of them :).

One of the main reasons why I chose to work at Enforcer was because the president was a Linux advocate.

-- Masuo Gates - 03 Oct 2002