Beowulf's Becker on Linux trademarks, lawsuits and grid vs. cluster
Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Wednesday August 31 2005 @ 08:58AM EDT
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com: IT shops are being bombarded by mixed and incorrect messages about the legal aspects of open source software and the current status of grid and virtualization technologies, says Donald Becker, Beowulf Project co-founder and founder and chief scientist of San Francisco-based Scyld Software, a subsidiary of Penguin Computing.
Becker sounds off on these subjects in this excerpt from our interviews during and after the recent LinuxWorld Conference & Exposition in San Francisco.
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