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+How to establish a 'business relationship' with the free software community
+
+If you're coming from a traditional business perspective, the Linux and Free
+Software development community might still seem quite a bit strange. 
+
+However, it is the authors' belief that it is very important for vendors of
+linux-based products and solutions to establish a healthy relationship with the
+free software community.
+
+Both parties can greatly benefit from such a relationship:  The businesses can
+reduce their maintainance cost by submitting their changes back into the free
+software project.  They also profit from new features developed within the
+community.
+
+The community benefits by increased number of users, more supported hardware
+and feedback about the real needs of the users.
+
+The author is a respected member of the Free Software development community,
+and at the same time working as technical consultant to a number of
+corporations working on Linux-Kernel related development.  From his past
+experience, very few businesses have managed to establish this 'healthy'
+relationship, simply because they didn't understand how free software
+developmen works, and how they fit into that development model.
+
+This presentation tries to explain the Free Software development model and give
+guidelines how businesses should interact with Free Software projects.
+