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that there was something happening
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I announced Open Source to the world on the Internet
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I did a lot of the early... administrative work of
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starting the Open Source Initiative
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and I think six months later
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I was reading the words Open Source
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in the news all the time
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and was totally astounded
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And a year later, I believe
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Microsoft was talking about releasing some source code
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And someone in the press asked Steve Ballmer
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if they were going to open source their code
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and Steve Ballmer said,
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"Well, Open Source means more than
just releasing the source code"
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And I realized that he had read my document
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and understood it and was now telling
the press about this
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Now if you are like just a guy on the net
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who's not doing this for a job at all
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and you sort of write a manifesto
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and it spreads out through the world
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and a year later
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the vice president of Microsoft is talking about that
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You'd think you were on drugs, wouldn't you?
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But that's what really happened
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The Local Users Groups
tend to be more than an issue of
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building a social network
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especially getting people familiarized with the issues
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also just acting as a kind of supporting network
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for people who, who do not, for example,
have the ability
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to pay for commercial support network
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So one thing they're doing in this area