Collaborative Projects: Transforming The Way Software Is Built

I got involved with Linux and open source in the mid-90s. I had a routine: I would check out LKML, go to bed  and wake up in the morning and find thousands of messages from developers around the world innovating and iterating at an unprecedented rate of change. Nothing had or has since compared with that rate of innovation: I was hooked on open source collaboration, and I’ve never looked back.

The Linux Foundation has been lucky enough to be part of five industry shifts in the market characterized by open source collaboration: