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-=OpenSource at HP, Community Involvement and Internal Use=-

Good morning, thanks for being up so late, you must have been hacking through the night.  The Sunday bus schedule must have surprised people because there aren't too many here.

HP is a great company, supported Linux for some years now.  Member of KDE league, supported KDE with hardware here and last year.

!!!Michael Schultz, Technical Marketing Manager Hewlett-Packard

That's "Marketing Manager".

Question isn't will Linux dominate the world but which part of the world will Linux dominate.  Not a case of putting Linux everywhere but deliver on a customer and user need.  Delivering Linux for the real world.

Embrace Linux for what it is, a disruptive technology.  

HP's contributions in Open Sauce.  opensource.HP.Com.  Titanium maintainer of Linux.  Work with Samba.  Contributed lots to Debian project, Bdale at HP used to be DPL.  Founding member of OSDL. Printer drivers for their printers on linuxprinting.org.  KDE & GNOME support although not participation.  

OpenSSI, single system clustering.  Has features you can't get in proprietary products.  

Handhelds.org iPAQ Linux development.  Different market from WindowsCE.  iPAQ was the first commercial PDA to run Linux.

Something about 'intellectual property' and business and legal reviews.

HP's use of Linux.  All e-mail goes through postfix on Linux (presumably GNU/Linux).  They use Jabber in their meetings.

Cheesy video of somebody with the three letter job title.  They were using KDE in the video.  blah change blah adapt blah real time blah return on investment.

They make it easy internally for HP employees to get a [GNU/]Linux machine, just download a floppy disk image and boot from that, installs over network presumably.  

One more thing, HP nx5000 laptops with SuSE preinstalled on them recently announced.  Some have been provided.  Riding on the wave of this market, small just now but taking off.  More to come.  Whenever a new desktop device is made they make sure it is [GNU/]Linux friendly, ensure drivers are available for the hardware.

Even before this laptop they ship desktop systems with [GNU/]Linux, tested with Mandrake or Turbolinux in Asia.

Point that nx5000 page on hp.com says "Recommends Microsoft Windaes" well they don't say GNU/Linux is right everywhere.

HP and software patents?  Looks embarrassed .  Can't give an answer since he's not involved in that.

HP websites are tested not just on IE but also on Mozilla.  No mention of Konqueror.