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Simon Phipps is a computer scientist
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and web
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and open source
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advocate.
Phipps was instrumental in IBM
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's involvement in the Java programming language
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, founding IBM's Java Technology Center. He left IBM for Sun Microsystems
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in 2000, taking leadership of Sun's open source programme from Danese Cooper. Under Phipps, most of Sun's core software was released under open source licenses, including Solaris and Java
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.
Phipps was not hired into Oracle
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as part of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems and his final day was March 8, 2010 when the two entities combined. Following Sun, he spent a year as Chief Strategy Officer
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of identity startup ForgeRock before becoming an independent consultant. In 2015 he briefly joined Wipro
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Technologies as director of their open source advisory practice.
Phipps was President of the Open Source Initiative
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until 2015 when he stepped down in preparation for the end of his Board term in 2016, and was re-elected in 2017 and re-appointed President by the Board in September 2017. He was a board member of the Open Rights Group and The Document Foundation and on the advisory board of Open Source for America. He has served on a number of advisory boards for other projects, including as CEO of the MariaDB Foundation, and at the GNOME Foundation, OpenSolaris
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, OpenJDK
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, and OpenSPARC and most recently the AlmaLinux OS Foundation.
He has appeared as a guest and occasional co-host on episodes of the FLOSS Weekly podcast.
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