A talk with Jon Maddog Hall - the spokesman for the open source community and president of Linux International

Jon Hall, president of Linux® International, is a passionate spokesman for the open source community and ideal. Over a 30-plus-year career, Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, author, consultant to local, state and national governments worldwide and college educator. He is currently an industry consultant. While at Digital, he became interested in Linux and was instrumental in obtaining equipment and resources for Linus Torvalds to accomplish his first port, to Digital's Alpha platform. Hall serves on the boards of several companies, and several nonprofit organizations. At the U.K. Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, he was honored with a Lifetime Recognition Award for his services to the open source community.

Scott Laningham interviews Jon Maddog Hall where he quizzes Maddog on the progress and challenges for open source, and on the need to recapture a purer vision of education. It is fascinating to hear Maddog speak (mp3 - 11MB) about his experiences (mp3 - 7MB) and thoughts related to Linux and the efforts that are put into making the businesses understand the concept of open source and free software.You can also read the full transcript of the talk here.