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infrastructure for disaster  Leaders of the Open Source
community gathered in San Diego last week, and various panels
discussed everything from Apache to Linux to XML during the
week. The most anticipated events, however, were the keynotes
and panel discussions featuring Microsoft v.p. Craig Mundie and
Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann. "Open Source isn't the issue."
That five-word sentence was included among the comments Craig
Mundie made Thursday at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.
Mundie made headlines earlier this year during a speech at New
York University, when he labeled Open Source software as
potentially weak and unstable, and capable of hindering
business. While indeed, a few seconds later, he closed in on the
GNU Public License as what Microsoft had issues with, many in
the Open Source community came away with the impressio