Open Source Evangelism Before it Was Cool with Sarah Novotny

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 11 a.m.

b'Sarah Novotny is a free and open source software strategist at Azure, working out of the office of the CTO. She\\u2019s also on the Linux Foundation\\u2019s board of directors. Previously, Sarah served as the head of open source strategy for GCP, the program manager of the Kubernetes community at Google, head of developer relations at NGINX, and program chair of the O\\u2019Reilly Open Source Convention, among other positions.\\n\\nJoin Corey and Sarah as they discuss how and why Microsoft\\u2019s stance on open source has changed over the last 20 years, how companies can win in open source and what they need to do to make that happen, how Microsoft is involved in the Linux Foundation and how that would be almost unthinkable 20 years ago, how the cloud is not a zero-sum game, the pros and cons of turning the cloud into a utility, the importance of empowering customers versus telling them what to buy, and more.'