A report from Computerworld:
HK professionals and academics join OSS keynote, forum
Open source software provider Red Hat and the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) jointly organized a keynote speech and open source software forum held in Hong Kong in late April. . In a presentation before the panel, Mike Tiemann, president of the Open Systems Institute and VP of Open Source Affairs for Red Hat, described how, as an unknown hacker, he wrote the GNU C++ compiler.
“The HKLIA is limited because the majority of software companies are small and struggling, not funded by venture capital,” said Samson Tam, vice chairman of Hong Kong's Information Software Industry Association. “OSS is a good concept but we need to build a successful development model for Asia. In the [US], universities work closely with commercial interests, and we would like to see the government matching donations from commercial sources.”
HK professionals and academics join OSS keynote, forum
Open source software provider Red Hat and the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) jointly organized a keynote speech and open source software forum held in Hong Kong in late April. . In a presentation before the panel, Mike Tiemann, president of the Open Systems Institute and VP of Open Source Affairs for Red Hat, described how, as an unknown hacker, he wrote the GNU C++ compiler.
“The HKLIA is limited because the majority of software companies are small and struggling, not funded by venture capital,” said Samson Tam, vice chairman of Hong Kong's Information Software Industry Association. “OSS is a good concept but we need to build a successful development model for Asia. In the [US], universities work closely with commercial interests, and we would like to see the government matching donations from commercial sources.”
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