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"The past few weeks have seen me out and about visiting various large companies here in Germany and talking about the open source work we do (mostly to do with Apache Cocoon and related projects). Working in this area has given me some interesting insights into the relationships between customers and 'suppliers' (meaning software companies like ourselves).

Two years ago when we started on this interesting journey, we were faced with having to argue why we use and work on open source software: 'if it's free then it can't be any good'. Now, we are often met with the comment of 'oh, we use that here as well'. So the times have definitely changed. [...] But it's getting 'in' that is really still the problem. [...] We need to increase the visibility of the open source projects and make sure people are aware of them. Here are some ideas of what you can do."

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