When I joined Intel at the age of 18, I was deeply inspired – frankly, awestruck – at the prospect of working for a company with technology that c

An Open Letter to an Open Ecosystem

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When I joined Intel at the age of 18, I was deeply inspired – frankly, awestruck – at the prospect of working for a company with technology that can create a positive impact for so many people around the world. Forty years later, I still feel this way. And I believe this level of impact and depth of purpose should be open to all technologies, including every developer and every company. 

Innovation thrives in an open, democratized environment where people can connect, communicate, and respond together to new stimuli. Back in 1997, I introduced the Intel Developer Forum to bring together a diverse audience of developers, partners, and customers to shape the future of cross-platform technologies. This free exchange increased our ability to learn from one another.

Today’s technologists stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. At the dawn of the Information Age, enterprise, academia and government collaborated, building upon one another’s discoveries to create the foundations so pivotal to our world today: personal computing, the internet, the networks that make us a global society. There were healthy rivalries, but the ecosystem was open.   

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