Brian Behlendorf was the first Webmaster at Wired Magazine, and he went on to become a founding member of the Apache Web Server Project. Now, as the driving force behind Collab.net, Inc., Brian has a chance to change the way software is developed.
While there would still be a World Wide Web without the Apache Web server, pundits have suggested that it would belong to Microsoft. Since drawing up the plan for the Apache project in 1993, Apache Software Foundation President Brian Behlendorf has helped lead the volunteer development team that proved that you can take on Microsoft and win — just so long as you change the rules.
Lately, the 26-year-old Behlendorf has been focusing on his new company, Collab.net, which aims to provide an integrated development environment for open source developers the world over. Behlendorf met with Linux Magazine editors Adam Goodman and Robert McMillan to discuss Collab.net, open source, the Internet, and his early, crazy days at Wired.
Linux Magazine: Is it true you once owned the McDonalds.com domain?
Brian Behlendorf: In the early days of Wired, one of their authors, Josh Quittner, wrote an article about domain names. How easy it is to get a domain name. Because at that point, no one knew about the Internet except for systems administrators. It was nowhere near the kind of consumer thing that it is today.
So Josh and I sat there and did a whole bunch of whois lookups on the Fortune 500 companies. Most of them were…
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