Ulf Michael Widenius, better known to open source folk as Monty, has a few things in common with Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
Monty is from Finland, speaks Swedish like four percent of the population (the remainder speak Finnish) and is an author of an important open source package, in this case MySQL.
But, in contrast to some open source people, Monty is easy to talk to and candid in what he says. I caught up with him on the sidelines of the recent Australian national Linux conference.
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