THE TABER FLASH

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Andy Warhol predicted it...

OK, I know this isn't really an overwhelming industry event...but it's not every day that I'm the topic of the lead paragraph of a BusinessWeek article.  No, the picture was not included in the article, to everyone's dismay.

Here's the lead paragraph of the article...

David Taber is a new kind of software guru. Taber, a veteran of big companies such as Sun Microsystems (SUNW ) and Sybase (SY), is a go-to man when a traditional software company is trying to give away code to the worldwide collective of software developers known as the open source community. Giving away software should be easy, right? Turns out, it can be as tricky as creating it in the first place. "Open source requires a cultural change, mostly in executive management," says Taber, who runs a small consulting company in Palo Alto (Calif.). "There are a lot of issues people don't even think about. With open source, you have to give away your intellectual property, give away your baby."

Thanks to Annette Schimada of KickStart Consulting and Niku Softare for helping make this happen!

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