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Whats VA Linux doing in terms of lobbying government to get people involved with open source?

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Whats VA Linux doing in terms of lobbying government to get people involved with open source?

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We do a lot of ISV program. I think we have 120 software firms in our ISV program, and we’re lobbying all of those people to move to open source. In fact, one of the services we sell is helping people to go open source to analyse their business to see where they can take open source. Developing new software that is open source, new things that are open source. I think we’re pretty pleased with the reaction and the interest. Is it important that your economic success story involves Linux? I think that just by setting the example to show that yes, you can have a business which is successful around open source is probably one the biggest things we can do to encourage companies to go open source. And by the way, I don’t think we’ll have actually done that until we cross the line and are actually profitable. We’ve got some work to do. We’re saying that’ll be the end of next year. Do you ever get any negative feedback as a company or as an individual for having made quite a bit of money from

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