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June 25, 2007 9:40 PM PDT

The Open Source CEO: Gianugo Rabellino, Sourcesense (Part 16)

by Matt Asay
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Nearly every CEO profiled in this series has several years of experience, and comes from a prominent open source company. I wanted to change lanes a little with this next one, so as to get the perspective of a new CEO with a freshly-born startup. Bonus points were given for finding someone outside the United States.

Therefore, for this sixteenth installment of the Open Source CEO Series, I reached out to Gianugo Rabellino, CEO and Co-founder of Sourcesense. Gianugo had been an early critic of my company, Alfresco, challenging our bona fides as an open source company. I credit Gianugo, in part, with helping us make the shift to a 100% GPL model (though he probably would have prefered we move to an Apache license, given his affiliation with the Apache Software Foundation :-).

Name, position, and company of executive
Gianugo Rabellino, CEO and Co-founder of Sourcesense.

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About The Open Road

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to the Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is general manager of the Americas division and vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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