Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Talk by Elizabeth K. Joseph

socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/open-source-closed-ecosystems

In spite of Linux running on the platform for 25 years, the mainframe community is notoriously proprietary. Fortunately, in the past several years we’ve built a thriving open source community that subverts the status quo. Learn how we did it, and how you can too.