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SOTD: How far behind is free+open culture? Mike Linksvayer (Vice President of Creative Commons) is coming to FSCONS to give the talk How far behind is free+open culture? Mike Linksvayer is Vice President of Creative Commons, where he manages core programs and operations. He joined Creative Commons as CTO in 2003. In 2000 he co-founded an early open content/open data company, Bitzi.com, which provides a file metadata service. He has participated in free software and related movements since 1990 and in 1993 published one of the first interviews with Linus Torvalds. Mike has a professional background in web, enterprise and multimedia software development and holds a degree in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.