The Linux Foundation Member Summit

It's been about 20 years since cloud computing in its modern form debuted. Open source has been around longer but that's also about the point when open source matured beyond being a cheaper Unix replacement to being the source of development and technology innovation that it has become. There are important lessons in those 20 years. Lessons about standardization. Lessons in flexibility. Lessons in cooperation. Lessons in developing ecosystems. Lessons in what not to do. Indeed, for all the success of Linux, the cloud has arguably been the great showcase for open source success over the past couple of decades. As a result, it's useful to think about the lessons there and how they apply to AI and other important areas of innovation going forward.