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Among the big issues to be discussed at the upcoming Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), ?March 24th and 25th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, will be the future of open source. In preparation, OStatic has been running a series of guest posts on this theme, featuring thought leaders from top open source projects. We've checked in with Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal content management system, and co-founder of Acquia. Martin Schneider, director of product marketing for SugarCRM, also delivered some thoughts on open source and cloud computing. Now, Justin Steinman, vice president of solution and product marketing at Novell, gives us his thoughts on open source and mass customization.

On Monday, the Debian project announced that it was renaming the former Custom Debian Distribution concept (the umbrella term under which Debian projects such as Debian Junior, Debian Med, and DebiChem were collectively known) to the more accurate (and catchier) name Debian Pure Blends.

Though Debian Pure Blends for some reason makes me think gourmet coffee, Andreas Tille of the Debian project makes a good deal of sense when he says that Custom Debian Distributions stated the obvious (yes, these projects use Debian code) without giving a clear picture of what the customizations were, or how closely they were related to the Debian base.