by Matt Asay

How one open source atheist become a believer

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May 5, 20071 min

Many don't know this, but my friend and colleague John Newton (co-founder of Documentum and of Alfresco) started his life as anti-open soure. He couldn't understand how the model could possibly work in a business context. On a recent edition of IT Conversations' Technometria, John talks about what it took to make him into an open source believer. Hint: Marten Mickos....

Many don’t know this, but my friend and colleague John Newton (co-founder of Documentum and of Alfresco) started his life as anti-open soure. He couldn’t understand how the model could possibly work in a business context.

On a recent edition of IT Conversations’ Technometria, John talks about what it took to make him into an open source believer.

Hint: Marten Mickos.