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How do you put the world's most familiar operating system building material (Linux) to use with the world's most adaptable building method (open source)? How do the "suits" of the world -- professionals in charge of building businesses and the computing infrastructure that supports them -- get past all the old arguments that the Open Source world has been talking to itself about for years and put Linux and open source to work?

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Doc Searls has been following these questions for years at Linux Journal where his column, Linux For Suits, looks at where code, culture and business converge. He has become one of the most widely respected and quoted observers, not only of the software industry, but of business and its future, which are topics he addresses as coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. Cluetrain was on all the major nonfiction bestseller lists last year and is still selling well in nine languages. Doc also speaks on all these issues to groups all over the world.

With Suitwatch, Doc holds forth every other week on subjects more current and business-focused than we have room for in Linux Journal. Suitwatch looks at what Linux and open-source development are doing in business this week, today and tomorrow -- and at the large issues around the often contentious space where open-source development and business meet and work together.

About the Author

Senior Editor Doc Searls is a veteran writer, speaker and computer industry analyst. He joined Linux Journal early in 1999 after serving as president of The Searls Group, a marketing consultancy that began as part of Hodskins Simone & Searls. Doc co-founded HS&S in 1978 and helped build it into one of the top technology advertising and public relations agencies in Silicon Valley. HS&S was acquired in 1998 by Publicis Technology.

Doc has been a journalist since high school, both as an editor and as a freelance writer. His byline as appeared in OMNI, PC Magazine, Upside, The Globe and Mail, and Linux Journal, where he is serving as Senior Editor.

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